The Exigency of Being Parrhèsiastic: On Truth-telling in Socratic Dialogue Groups with Survivors of Cancer

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A philosophical dialogue about the existentially disruptive situation left by cancer can be constructive for life post cancer. In this article I suggest that a Foucauldian interpretation of parrhèsia is a valuable lens that can magnify the kind of dialogue that takes place among survivors of cancer participating in a Socratic Dialogue Group (SDG) as well as conceptualize a fundamental precondition underlying a good philosophical dialogue. After a brief account of the concept of parrhèsia, the article will identify its particular modalities within a SDG and analyze these by using illustrative examples taken from my research. Through these examples I study how parrhèsia can help articulate the relation between truth and subject and display the philosophical objective in a SDG and, finally, the article will show what parrhèsia presents in a setting of this nature both in terms of its potential and its problems.

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