The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal' by Taylor, Chloe

The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal' (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415963718)

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The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal' by Taylor, Chloe

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

$210.00
The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal' by Taylor, Chloe

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

$210.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Chloe Taylor
ISBN-10: 0415963710
ISBN-13: 9780415963718
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 23
By Chloe Taylor
By Chloe Taylor
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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.

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