Foucault and Theology

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Tran is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. His book Theology and the Vietnam War: History, Memory, and Redemption is forthcoming in the Blackwell series "Challenges in Contemporary Theology" Vorwort A major contribution to the link between theology and philosophy, introducing the core ideas of Michel Foucault to students of theology. Zusammenfassung Contributes to the link between theology and philosophy! introducing the core ideas of Michel Foucault to students of theology. This book explains how to do theology in light of Foucault! or more precisely! to read Foucault as if God mattered. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements / Introduction / Part I: Power and Totality / 1. Power / 2. Capitalism, Totality, and Resistance / Part II: Self-Writing / 3. Biography and Biopolitics / 4. Writing the Self / 5. Self-Care: The Case of Animals / Postscript

Product details

• Authors: Dr Jonathan Tran, Jonathan Tran
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9780567033420
• ISBN: 978-0-567-03342-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Philosophy and Theology; Philosophy and Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works