La force du vrai : De Foucault à Austin
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 12632
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Le Bord de l’Eau
- ISBN
- 9782356875310
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- This book offers an original reading of Michel Foucault's project of a history of truth. It emphasises the latter's ethical and political dimensions by putting Foucault's analyses of parrhesia in conversation with J.L. Austin's work on performative utterance and Stanley Cavell's study of passionate utterance. The problem that it poses, in connection with traditional reflections on the power of words, is that of the power of truth: Can truth be coherently conceived as a force? To answer this question, this book newly explores the relations between truth, critique and life within an ethics and politics of truth-telling.
