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The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault (Studies in Philosophy)

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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(s): Chloe Taylor
Series: Studies in Philosophy
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 313

Book cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 Confession from Antiquity to the Counter-Reformation......Page 28
2 Confession and Modern Subjectivity......Page 81
3 Psychoanalysis......Page 131
4 Confessing the Other......Page 182
5 Alternatives to Confession......Page 206
Figures......Page 251
Conclusion......Page 265
Notes......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 298
Index......Page 310