
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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