Name: Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (en Inglés)
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Author: Docherty, Thomas
ISBN: 9781472557452

portada Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Thomas Docherty

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.2 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781472557452

Categorías

Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Filosofía ética y moral

Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (en Inglés)

Thomas Docherty (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (en Inglés)"

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.