LEADER 03099nam 22006611 450 001 9910597894703321 005 20250414181857.0 010 $a9781849666794 010 $a1849666792 010 $a9781849666787 010 $a1849666784 024 7 $a10.5040/9781849666770 035 $a(CKB)2550000000111051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000798237 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11957451 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000798237 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10743669 035 $a(PQKB)10782816 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC912468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6160241 035 $a(OCoLC)796937349 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09256965 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9781849666770BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000111051 100 $a20140929d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConfessions $ethe philosophy of transparency /$fThomas Docherty 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2012] 215 $a1 online resource $cdigital, HTML file(s) 225 1 $aThe WISH list 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781472557452 311 08$a147255745X 311 08$a9781849666596 311 08$a1849666598 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication.Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of ?transparency'. In a postmodern ?transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, ?here I take my stand'.The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims ?I confess') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood. 410 0$aWISH list. 517 $aConfessions 606 $aConfession 606 $aConfession in literature 606 $aConfession stories 615 0$aConfession. 615 0$aConfession in literature. 615 0$aConfession stories. 676 $a809 700 $aDocherty$b Thomas$0448641 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910597894703321 996 $aConfessions$91803338 997 $aUNINA