Foucault on Christianity: The Impasse of Subjectivation
The last volume of Foucault's History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh, offers a detailed excursion into Early Christianity and its distinct mode of subjectivation. But it also discloses a paradox that was already apparent in some of Foucault's published interventions: that his studi...
| Nebentitel: | Roundtable Discussion: Michel Foucault and Political Theology |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2021]
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Political theology
Jahr: 2021, Band: 22, Heft: 1, Seiten: 53-59 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Frühchristentum
/ Subjekt (Philosophie)
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| RelBib Classification: | KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Confession
B Michel Foucault B Sexuality B Ancient Philosophy B Religion B Subject Formation B Subjection |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The last volume of Foucault's History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh, offers a detailed excursion into Early Christianity and its distinct mode of subjectivation. But it also discloses a paradox that was already apparent in some of Foucault's published interventions: that his studies of Christian (and Ancient) ascetic practices contribute to foreclosing the analytical terrain that the notion of “subjectivation” opened up. The following remarks aim to show how, in turning to Christianity, Foucault leads the promising concept of subjectivation into a philosophical impasse. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866810 |