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Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice versa. This important collection compiles and analyses Foucault´s views on parrhesia to shed new light on his ideas on the importance of truth-telling in democracies.

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1. Speaking Truth to Power and Power Speaking Truthfully 2. Power: From Productive Submission and Domination to Transformative Capacity 3. The Nature of Critique: Political not Epistemological 4. The Politics of Critique: Political Engagement and Government 5. The Nature of Parrhesia: Political Truth-Telling in Relation to Power/Knowledge/Ethics 6. The Politics of pParrhesia: The Autonomy of Democratic Politics and the Parrhesiastic Pact 7. Leadership and Community: Critique of Obedience and Democratic Paradoxes 8. Political Perspectives: Authority and the Duality of Power, Politics and Politicization

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Torben Bech Dyrberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University, Denmark. His research focuses in particular on discourse theory, right/left orientation, power and democratic theory. He has published books and articles related to these areas including The Circular Structure of Power (1997).

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