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Crisis of Authority: Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault

By Nancy Luxon

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1107038731, 9781107038738
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3183423 bytes)
Pages
374\380
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-10-02 23:19:59
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Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust, and truthfulness in contemporary theory and politics. Drawing on newly available archival materials, Nancy Luxon locates two models for such practices in Sigmund Freud's writings on psychoanalytic technique and Michel Foucault's unpublished lectures on the ancient ethical practices of "fearless speech," or parrhesia. Luxon argues that the dynamics provoked by the figures of psychoanalyst and truth-teller are central to this process. Her account offers a more supple understanding of the modern ethical subject and new insights into political authority and authorship.

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