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Confessions : the philosophy of transparency

Confessions addresses an especially complex argument regarding relations between the socio-cultural demands for ‘transparency’ and ‘modernity’ construed in terms of autonomous authority. The scope of the work is necessarily large (from Augustine via Montaigne and Rousseau to Derrida, Arendt, Agamben) in philosophy; and from the medieval to the contemporary in literature. I undertook extensive research in theological discourse, in juridical practice, and in recent political and cultural instances of confessing or witnessing, from the Holocaust to South Africa. The topic has been central to virtually all aspects of post-romantic cultural theory; and required corresponding reach and ambit.