Culture of Confession From Augustine to Foucault - A Genealogy of the ''Confessing Animal''

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book is a genealogical study of confession. 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. On the contrary, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Chloe Taylor, Chloë Taylor, Taylor Chloe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2008
• EAN: 9780415963718
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96371-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism