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The Confessing Society : Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning.
Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their ""true"" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning thr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their ""true"" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant learner. The Confessing Society takes a critical stance towards the modern relentless will to disclose the self and argues that society has become a confessing society. Drawing on Foucault's later work on confession and governmentality, this book> |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781136734311 1136734317 |