{"id":6193,"date":"2018-05-02T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:47:47","slug":"visiting-assoc-prof-maxwell-publishes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/2018\/05\/02\/visiting-assoc-prof-maxwell-publishes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Maxwell Publishes on Foucault Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1351705\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visiting Associate Professor Lida Maxwell<\/a> recently published an article in <em>Contemporary Political Theory<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057\/s41296-018-0224-5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault\u2019s lectures on parrhesia.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<br \/>\nThis essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault\u2019s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political predicament: of having to appear distant from power (to achieve credibility), while also having to partake in some sense of political power (to render one\u2019s truth significant). Read in this way, Foucault\u2019s lectures help us to understand and address the disputed politicality of truth-telling \u2013 over who counts as a truth-teller, and what counts as the truth \u2013 that his ethical interpreters tend to neglect. Yet the essay also shows that Foucault\u2019s depiction of the predicament of truth-tellers is problematically gendered: focused on the masculine problem of moving in and out of the public sphere, rather than on the experience of the dispossessed, who are excluded from political power altogether. The essay mobilizes an alternative reading of one of Foucault\u2019s key texts \u2013 Euripides\u2019 Ion \u2013 to draw out an alternative, more democratic model of the predicament of truth-telling: of having to constitute power that can lend significant to truth-telling, while speaking from a position of powerlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057\/s41296-018-0224-5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057\/s41296-018-0224-5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Associate Professor Lida Maxwell recently published an article in Contemporary Political Theory: &#8220;The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault\u2019s lectures on parrhesia.&#8221; Abstract: This essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault\u2019s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6198,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}