Open AccessHacer la verdad: el “yo” de la confesión en Kierkegaard, Foucault y Derrida.
Author(s) -
Laura Llevadot
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
estudios kierkegaardianos revista de filosofía
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2448-5330
DOI - 10.54354/gbtk8689
Subject(s) - confession (law) , confessional , michel foucault , philosophy , argument (complex analysis) , constitution , power (physics) , discipline , epistemology , sociology , humanities , law , political science , social science , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
In Technologies of the Self (“Christianity and Confession”, 1980) Foucault places confession within the discursive practices which are used towards the control, constitution and mastery of the Self in disciplinary societies. According to his argument, in such societies confession cannot act as much more than a subtle but very precise form of interiorizing power through generating knowledge about oneself. On the contrary, in this article I will try to articulate a definition of confession as an act of transformation and opening of the Self to otherness, carrying out a comparative examination of some fundamental reasons behind Kierkegaard’s “Occasional Discourse”, On the Occasion of a Confession, and Jacques Derrida’s confessional text, Circumfession.