Michel Foucault’s Rhetorical Practice: The 1961 Preface to History and Madness

Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):142-167 (2023)
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ABSTRACT This article examines Foucault as a rhetorician rather than as a historian of parrhesia and rhetoric. It explores what we can learn about his philosophy by examining it through the lens of his rhetorical practices. Focusing on his famous 1961 preface to History and Madness, it suggests that Foucault’s model of philosophy entails a rhetoric of conversion or transformation.

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