Foucault and Theology

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvJonathan Tran,Dr Jonathan Tran

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This is a major contribution to the link between theology and philosophy, introducing the core ideas of Michel Foucault to students of theology. Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault never seriously entertained Christianity beyond theorizing its aesthetic style one might argue that Christian practices like confession or Eucharist share family resemblances to Foucaultian sensibilities. This book will explain how to do theology in light of Foucault, or more precisely, to read Foucault as if God mattered. Therefore, it will seek to articulate practices like confession, prayer, and so on as techniques for the self, situate 'the church as politics' within present constellations of power, disclose theological knowledges as modes of critical intervention, or what Foucault called archaeology, and conceptualize Christian existence in time through mnemonic practices of genealogy."The Philosophy and Theology" series looks at major philosophers and explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the response of theology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-06-16
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy and Theology
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567033437

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Introduction (7,000 words); Part One: The Birth of the Self; 1. Secular Saint: Paul-Michel Foucault's Biography (9,000 words); 2. Kant or Nietzsche?: Foucault's Sources (9,000 words); 3. Ontologies in Conflict: Theological Caricatures of Foucault (8,000 words); Part II: The Care of the Self; 4. Genealogy, Time, & Subjectivity (9,000 words); 5. Ordering Knowledge and Being: A/Theology (9,000 words); 6. "2,000 Years and No New Gods": The Church and Power (9,000 words); Part III: The Self's Pleasure in God; 7. Scripting the Self: St. Anthony and Foucault (9,000 words); 8. Sacrificing the Self: Augustine and Foucault (9,000 words); Conclusion (3,000 words); Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Index (2,000 words).

Foucault and Theology is valuable as a serious attempt to come to terms with the implications for theological thinking of Foucault's later concerns with biopower and care of the self. And the book not only points to a new theological approach to Foucault, but points to significant possibilities of contem-porary Christian practices of the self, which take as their point of departure Foucault's analysis of worldly power.