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Forelæsning med Gerard Hauser den 15. maj 2009

Den amerikanske retoriker Gerard A. Hauser, University of Colorado, Boulder, er gæst på Københavns Universitet d. 14.-15. maj 2009. 

Professor Hauser har været en fremtrædende skikkelse i retorikforskningen i mange år, og særligt bogen Vernacular Voices (1999, University of South Carolina Press) har været en betydelig inspirationskilde for mange forskere med interesse i politisk debat, folkebevægelser og offentlig sfære-teori. Professor Hauser er fungerende redaktør på det prominente tidsskrift Rhetoric & Philosophy. Han arbejder for tiden på et bogprojekt der ligger i forlængelse af projektet om "vernacular rhetoric" og som bl.a. handler om politiske fangers mulighed for retorisk modstand.

FORELÆSNING: "Rhetorical Resistance by Prisoners of Conscience: Parrhesia and Indirection"

Fredag d. 15. maj
Kl. 10.00 - 12.00
Lok. 27.0.17 (ny KUA)

The prisoner of conscience speaks on the stage of resistance and reform that requires frank speech, or parrhesia. Allowing for resitance as more than a theoretical possibility, tying parrhesia to the surface feature of a rhetor addressing directly an immediate audience, as does Foucault, runs contrary to actual practice. Although there always is an ostensible audience, it is not necessarily the political prisoner's intended one. The fact that prisoners of conscience use parrhesia to defy the sovereign's power to reduce him or her to bare life, invites us to examine how frank speech may not only speak the truth to authority but also entail rhetorical mechanisms for combating the state monopoly on violence with what the prisoner of conscience does best - speak the truth. One rhetorical mechanism that makes sense of such speech is indirection.

Download paper fra forelæsningen: "Indrection, Parrhesia and Resistance in the Rhetoric of Prisoners of Conscience"