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By Chloë Taylor

ISBN-10: 041588781X

ISBN-13: 9780415887816

ISBN-10: 0415963710

ISBN-13: 9780415963718

Drawing at the paintings of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this publication demanding situations the transhistorical and common sense perspectives of confession as an innate impulse leading to the mental liberation of the confessing topic. as an alternative, confessional hope is argued to be contingent and constraining, and possible choices to confessional subjectivity are explored.

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