04845nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-65695-8 DE-He213 20251030112852.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240813s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031656958 978-3-031-65695-8 10.1007/978-3-031-65695-8 doi JA85-85.2 JPH bicssc GTC bicssc POL000000 bisacsh JPH thema GTC thema Frey, Renea. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82309 The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia [electronic resource] : The Rhetoric of Resistance / by Renea Frey. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 260 p. 5 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: What to Expect and Why -- PART I: A RHETORICAL THEORY OF PARRHESIA -- Chapter 2: What’s in a Word? Parrhesia, Rhetoric, and Discursive Fields of Meaning -- Chapter 3: A Word with a Mission: How Parrhesia Moves and Reproduces -- Chapter 4: A Networked Rhetorical Theory of Parrhesia: Putting It All Together -- PART II: THE HISTORY OF PARRHESIA -- Chapter 5: Historicizing Parrhesia: Athenian Democracy and Philosophy -- Chapter 6: Beyond Athens: Parrhesia and the Roman Republic -- Chapter 7: Parrhesia and Autocracy: Roman Empire and Early Christian Eras -- PART III: THE PRACTICE OF PARRHESIA -- Chapter 8: Problems and Interrogation: Parrhesia, Truth, and Ideology -- Chapter 9: Case Studies in Parrhesia -- Chapter 10: The Courage to Speak and to Listen. Parrhesia is a vital rhetorical resource for our times, enabling discordant interruptions when oppressive power occults shared community values. Renea Frey accomplishes the impossible here in one volume: she untangles a complex theory of parrhesia, she recovers its ancient history, and she illustrates its modern practice to foster progressive social change. Frey is concerned at every point to make parrhesia available for every citizen reader to employ in promoting civic virtue. - Patricia L. Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross, Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita Speak the truth, regardless of the risks, to those who need to hear it and especially to those who don’t want to hear it. Why haven’t we been teaching parrhesia all along? In her skillful historical narration Renea Frey recovers parrhesia for the field of rhetoric, tracks its historical origins, catalogs its variations, and overall makes a compelling case for why parrhesia matters, why it is perhaps THE most important rhetorical (and ethical) principle of them all, particularly so in this era of social media disinformation, deepfakes, and, unapologetic mendacity. This impressive piece of scholarship is required reading for everyone in the field. - James E. Porter, Miami University This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been considered previously by any other theorist. The goal of this book is to offer a reader-friendly explanation of this networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia, provide a genealogical account of the origins of parrhesia in the Classical age, and to show how parrhesia manifests today. This book is meant to give readers a functional manual for understanding, recognizing, analyzing, articulating, and using parrhesia. Renea Frey is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Program Director at Xavier University (Ohio, USA). Communication in politics. 65259 Communication. 59615 Information theory. 57783 Language and languages Style. 66672 Rhetoric. 66673 Political Communication. 67745 Media and Communication Theory. 71787 Media and Communication. Rhetorics. 66676 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031656941 Printed edition: 9783031656965 Printed edition: 9783031656972 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65695-8 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 62445 62445