Arnold I. Davidson Libri

An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parresia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing practices of truth-telling in ancient democracies and tyrannies.

In this book, Arnold Davidson elaborates a method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls historical epistemology. He applies this to the history of sexuality, with consequences for our understanding of desire, abnormality, and sexuality.