Disclosures

<p>Published in 2000. Disclosures occur at every level of human experience; a slip of the tongue intentional betrayals of confidences carefully worded affidavits intimate avowals of passion confessions or exposes of our most deeply hidden secrets. This book is the first detailed study of the term <i>disclosure </i>as it resonates in its many connotations. To our eyes all things are either covered or uncovered hidden or revealed clothed or naked seen or unseen. Disclosure and closure as they are explored in these pages are not simply oppositions but alternate moments in a process of communication. By unravelling the kinds and levels of disclosure existing in language games of different communitive contexts this book is itself a revelation. It is a scholarly and illuminating study of the pervasiveness of disclosures in interpersonal moral cultural and political terms from the ancient times of Athenian democracy to contemporary society. </p>