On Condemning Whom We Do Not Know: Confession of Sins, Plea Bargains and Apophatic Anthropology

This essay claims that the American plea bargain, figured as an inheritor of Christian confession practices, constructs racialized criminal subjects. It further argues that an apophatic anthropology confounds this legal practice and enables new forms of confession to be imagined. The first section u...

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Main Author: Bragg, Hunter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2022
In: Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 317-334
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Verständigungsverfahren / Confession / Racism
RelBib Classification:KBQ North America
NBE Anthropology
RG Pastoral care
VA Philosophy
XA Law
Further subjects:B apophatic theology
B Confession
B Judith Butler
B Michel Foucault
B Subjectivity
B prison abolition
B Plea Bargain
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