The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-88781-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Studies in Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Chloë

Taylor, Chloe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Confession from Antiquity to the Counter-Reformation

Chapter Two: Confession and Modern Subjectivity

Chapter Three: Psychoanalysis

Chapter Four: Confessing the Other

Chapter Five: Alternatives to Confession

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chloë Taylor is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship from McGill University. Professor Taylor has published articles in journals such as Philosophy Today, Postmodern Culture and the Journal of Modern Literature. She is currently working on a book on Foucault and sex crimes, as well as undertaking research on animal ethics, feminism, and literature.