By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco

Michel Foucault, Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres. Cours au Collège de France. 1982-1983. Frédéric Gros, ed. (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2008).

Michel Foucault, The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983. Graham Burchell, trans. (New York: Picador, 2011).

Important Resources on the notion of Parrēsia

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité précédé de La parrêsia, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud & Daniele Lorenzini, Paris, Vrin, 2016 (published in a partial and inaccurate English version in 2001 as Fearless Speech)

Signe Larsen, “Parrēsia: Notes on the Thought of Michel Foucault”, Critical Legal Thinking, 2014

Daniele Lorenzini, “Performative, Passionate, and Parrhesiastic Utterance”, Critical Inquiry, 41 (Winter 2015), pp. 254-268

Nancy Luxon, “Authority, Interpretation and the Space of the Parrhesiastic Encounter”, Materiali Foucaultiani, vol. 3, no. 5-6 (2014), pp. 71-90

Giovanni Maria Mascaretti, “Michel Foucault on Problematization, Parrhesia and Critique”, Materiali Foucaultiani, vol. 3, no. 5-6 (2014), pp. 135-154

Alison Ross, “Why is ‘Speaking the Truth’ Fearless? ‘Danger’ and ‘Truth’ in Foucault’s Discussion of Parrhesia”, Parrhesia, no. 4 (2008), pp. 62-75

Book Reviews

Alain Beaulieu, Foucault Studies, no. 8 (February 2010), pp. 136-145

Christopher Forlini, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2011.11.61

Joakim Kromann & Thomas Klem Andersen, “Parrēsia: The Problem of Truth”, Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, vol. 11, no. 2 (2011), pp. 225-230

Alan Milchman & Alan Rosenberg, Foucault Studies, no. 10 (November 2010), pp. 155-159