Unruly Truth

Autor(en)

Sergej Seitz

Abstrakt

This article employs Bonnie Honig’s concepts of refusal and intensification to conceptualize the ancient practice of ‘parrhesia’ as a form of conflictual, political truth-telling. This entails envisaging political truth-telling as an intense, agonal practice that does not establish unalterable foundations but takes part in world-building practices. To this end, I first reconstruct parrhesia as an agonistic practice of truth-telling. Against this background, I take up Honig’s concept of intensification to make sense of parrhesia’s intricate political stakes with reference to Euripides’s Ion tragedy. Finally, I reenvisage the bacchants’ secession to Cithaeron as displayed in Euripides's Bacchae tragedy against the backdrop of Michel Foucault’s analysis of the cynic tradition, where parrhesia turns into a subversive political practice of displaying and prefiguring other forms of existence and social relations.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Journal

Res Publica: Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas

Band

27

Seiten

31-36

Anzahl der Seiten

6

ISSN

1576-4184

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.92801

Publikationsdatum

2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506013 Politische Theorie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/029eca60-edef-4056-8593-c537caf4f997