Politics as a Confession
Confronting the Enemy Within
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Dean (0000-0002-5213-2115, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author), Daniel Zamora (Université Libre de Bruxelles) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 82-97 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2022.2105280 |
| OpenAlex | W4289518006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In this article, we claim, firstly, that the turn to an “ethical” politics focused on subjectivity and its transformation, announced by post-structuralist theorists in the 1970s, can be found today in forms of progressive politics, illustrated by struggles against racism and their articulation by consultants and educators. Secondly, this turn entails targeting the “enemy within,” whether it be the inner fascist (Guattari, Foucault) or white privilege (Di Angelo, Kendi). Rather than an extension of Lasch’s therapeutic “culture of narcissism,” it is a turn to practices reminiscent of public rituals of expiation of guilt and acts of purification (exomologesis) characterizing what Weber referred to as “sects.” Pace Foucault, the “main danger” lies not in the “subjectifying” practices of the human sciences descended from auricular confession and the Christian pastorate, but rather the displacement of formal politics and attendant “civil religion” (Bellah) by conflicts between charismatic sects claiming exemplary subjectivity and virtuosity
Articulation (sociology · Confession (law · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Racism · Sociology · Subjectivity · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |