PARRHESIA - A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Michel Foucault’s last works tell us that parrhesia is the act of fearlessly speaking the truth.To engage in parrhesia is never, however, a ‘neutral’ act. Parrhesia simultaneously incorporates aesthetic and ethical dimensions. The parrhesiast is someone whose fidelity to the truth becomes the pivot of a process of self-transformation. Parrhesia is a journal that aims to gather a range of thinkers to examine the intersections between questions of subjectivity, politics, ethics, aesthetics and truth, intersections which both theoretically and practically form the critical points in our culture and in our time. As Walter Benjamin suggests it is these ‘perilous critical moments’ upon which the very act of reading, writing and thinking must be based. The journal endeavours to feature work by leading figures in contemporary thought, along with scholarly articles, which are double blind peer-reviewed.
Parrhesia is affiliated with the Departments of English and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.
Parrhesia is a part of the Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide.
COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICATION DETAILS
Parrhesia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
The full license is available here. It broadly stipulates that the copyright for the pieces published in Parrhesia
remain with the author, while first publication rights belong to Parrhesia. The contents of Parrhesia are free
for any and all to use in educational and non-commercial settings as long as their source is properly attributed.ISSN 1834-3287
CONTACT DETAILS
Parrhesia
PO Box 4272
University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010
Australia
For general enquiries: contact@parrhesiajournal.org
For enquiries pertaining to the submission of articles and their status: submissions@parrhesiajournal.org