| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The WISH list
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Philosophy of Transparency -- Part 1: Now -- Official Identity and Clandestine Experience -- This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine -- Part 2: Dilatory Time -- Waste and the Ecology of Anguish -- Confession and Democracy -- Part 3: Witnessing and Literary Confession -- My Language! -- Selected Bibliography. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Confession.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Confession. (OCoLC)fst00874645
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Docherty, Thomas. Confessions. [S.l.] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 1849666598 (OCoLC)747008413 |
| ISBN |
9781849666787 (electronic bk.) |
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1849666784 (electronic bk.) |
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9781849666770 |
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1849666776 |
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1849666598 |
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9781849666596 |
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9781849666794 Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1849666792 Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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9781472557452 print |
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