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The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0415963710
ISBN13: 9780415963718
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored.

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