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.
Chloë Taylor is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship from McGill University. Professor Taylor has published articles in journals such as Philosophy Today, Postmodern Culture and the Journal of Modern Literature. She is currently working on a book on Foucault and sex crimes, as well as undertaking research on animal ethics, feminism, and literature.
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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Confession from Antiquity to the Counter-ReformationChapter Two: Confession and Modern SubjectivityChapter Three: PsychoanalysisChapter Four: Confessing the OtherChapter Five: Alternatives to ConfessionConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
