THE CULTURE OF CONFESSION FROM AUGUSTINE TO FOUCAULT by Chloe Taylor ( 9780415963718 )

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Title:

THE CULTURE OF CONFESSION FROM AUGUSTINE TO FOUCAULT
A GENEALOGY OF THE 'CONFESSING ANIMAL'

By:

Chloe Taylor

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Hardback

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0415963710

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9780415963718

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 August, 2008

Pages:

312

Description:

Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, as well as the history of Western confessional writings from Ancient Greece to contemporary pop culture, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject.

Synopsis:

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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13 black & white halftones

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Routledge

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