Prawda Kreuzy. Gwałt, Foucault i polityka
Creusa’s Truth: Rape, Foucault, and Politics

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issue of truth-telling or parrhesia in politics. The author draws onMichel Foucault’s late lectures on this topic while simultaneously questioning Foucault’sinterpretation of the ancient prototype of parrhesia from Euripides’s play Ion. The analysishighlights Foucault’s “masculine arrogance,” as he consistently overlooks, obscures, ortrivializes the fact that the first instance of parrhesia was a woman’s accusation againsther rapist. An alternative, more attentive reading of Ion brings questions about the statusof sexual violence in politics and acknowledges the importance of non-citizen femalevoices in the political field.

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