The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

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The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault is written by Chloe Taylor and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135892792 (ISBN 10) and 9781135892791 (ISBN 13).

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored.