THE CONFESSING ANIMAL IN FOUCAULT AND WITTGENSTEIN

In The History of Sexuality, Foucault maintains that “Western man has become a confessing animal” (1990, 59), thus implying that “man” was not always such a creature. On a related point, Wittgenstein suggests that “man is a ceremonial animal” (1996, 67); here the suggestion is that human beings are,...

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Main Author: Plant, Bob (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2006
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2006, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-559
Further subjects:B Confession
B Genealogy
B Naturalism
B Historicism
B Foucault
B Wittgenstein
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