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

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

Chloë Taylor

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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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