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parrhesia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /pəˈriːziə/
  • /pəˈriːʒə/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παρρησία (parrhēsía), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (English pan-) + ῥῆσις (rhêsis), ῥῆμα (rhêma, “utterance, speech”).

Meanings

  1. (rhetoric, uncountable) boldness or freedom in speech
    • Anderson suggests that the centrality of ethos is incorporated into Foucault's description of the philosopher as truth-teller in his concept of parrhesia, as well as in the debate he had with Jürgen Habermas in relation to power and communication. 2016, Britta Timm Knudsen, Carsten Stage, Affective Methodologies, page 29:

Deriveds

parrhesiastic

Translations (2)

fr parrhésie (boldness or freedom in speech) · it parresia (boldness or freedom in speech)