The purpose of the master’s thesis will be studying and defining the position of satire in today’s prevalent types of speeches. For that reason, we won’t be interested solely in the satire “itself” but mainly in the broad context of types of speeches and expressions used in a public and political environment. This means, we won’t define satire as a genre and assign some typical recognisable manifestation to it, but will instead focus on its structural features and relation to other means of expression. The master’s thesis therefore won’t start directly with satire. We will find our way to it around a corner. Due to the placement in its broader context of expression, satire will get our attention in the latter part of the master’s thesis, when we will have already elaborated the types of speeches and expressions which we will name – parrhesia (fearless speech), negative political incorrectness, arithmetical political correctness, critical and pleasing populism and symbolic violence. We will use the Foucault’s analysis of parrhesia in antiquity, which will then be extended through Foucalt’s thematization of enlightment on today’s prevalent speeches in a public and political environment.
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