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London: Bloomsbury Academic. Fine with no dust jacket. (2012). First Edition. Hardcover. 1849666598 . xiv, 208 pages. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of 'transparency'. In a postmodern 'transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, 'here I take my stand'. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas…
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- Title Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency
- Author Thomas Docherty
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- Pages 224
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
- Date 2012-08-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9781849666596 / 1849666598
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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- Library of Congress subjects Confession
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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