Foucault and Classical Antiquity - Power, Ethics and Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Wolfgang Detel is Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt. Klappentext This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought. Zusammenfassung This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought. It offers a complex reading of the texts which Foucault discusses! covering topics such as Aristotle's ethics and theory of sex! Hippocratic dietetics! the earliest treatises on economics! and Plato's theory of love. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Morals, knowledge and power; 2. The ethical teleology; 3. The scientific regimen; 4. The asymmetrical relationship; 5. The epistemic eros; 6. Gender, nature and reference.

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• Authors: Wolfgang Detel, Wolfgang (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universita Detel
• Assisted by: Robert B Pippin (Editor), Robert B. Pippin (Editor), David Wigg-Wolf (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2005
• EAN: 9780521833813
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83381-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Modern European Philosophy (Ha
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day