Confessions : : The Philosophy of Transparency / / Thomas Docherty.
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 authenti...
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| Superior document: | The WISH list |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WISH list.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages). |
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| Other title: | Confessions |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1849666792 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Thomas Docherty. |