Artistic Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Ethics in Foucault and Benjamin

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-78

  Brigstocke, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aesthetics of existence; Baudelaire; Benjamin; cynics; Foucault; parrhesia; truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873244972     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276412450467     Document Type: Article

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