My 'truths' may support, oppose or moderate various societal truths that many of us who live 'between the lines' of various social groups encounter during our lifetimes. I am as constructed and fractured as any other member of today's U.S. society. I ask that you join me -- speak your truths -- there seems to be a dearth of it these days.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Blogging as a practice of parrhesia
I hope to periodically post a few words regarding the 'truth' seen through the lenses of my life. Notwithstanding my being raised by a minister and his school teacher wife and having been a 'missionary kid' in Nigeria for about five years, any truth I deal with will be along the lines of the practice of parrhesia as referenced in Greek works and as described by Michel Foucault, and as further suggested by the Quakers' that we "Speak Truth to Power".
My 'truths' may support, oppose or moderate various societal truths that many of us who live 'between the lines' of various social groups encounter during our lifetimes. I am as constructed and fractured as any other member of today's U.S. society. I ask that you join me -- speak your truths -- there seems to be a dearth of it these days.
My 'truths' may support, oppose or moderate various societal truths that many of us who live 'between the lines' of various social groups encounter during our lifetimes. I am as constructed and fractured as any other member of today's U.S. society. I ask that you join me -- speak your truths -- there seems to be a dearth of it these days.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment