The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

ISBN-13: 9780415887816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 312 str.

Chloë Taylor;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This project brings discussions of Hegel, Derrida, & Levinas into dialogue with Foucault in order to consider analyses of confession in continental philosophy. Critiquing the relation between confessor & confessant not only according to what Foucault calls the 'axis of power', but also according to the 'axis of ethics'.

O autorze

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.