Confessions:
Gespeichert in:
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1. Verfasser: Docherty, Thomas 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [s.l.] Bloomsbury Academic 2014
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Beschreibung: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?
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (224 S.)
ISBN:9781472557452