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

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

Chloe Taylor

298 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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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, conf...

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