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Confessions - The Philosophy of Transparency (Hardcover, New)
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Confessions - The Philosophy of Transparency (Hardcover, New)
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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 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.
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