Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Truth and Politics: Jan 26

Wednesday January 26, 7pm
16 Beaver Street 4th floor
Free and open to all

This Wednesday evening will be an introductory day for a reading group
that will form the core of the Truth and Politics Series. The series with a close reading of Michel Foucault's lectures of 1983 in Berkeley entitled: Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia. The text can be found at: http://foucault.info/documents/parrhesia/

Discussion will focus on the first short lecture entitled: The Meaning and
Evolution of the Word "Parrhesia".

And time permitting, discussion will include a short text by Brecht from 1935 entitled
'Writing the Truth Five Difficulties', which you can find at:

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