Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault

by Mark Jordan, Mark D. Jordan, Mark D Jordan

Book Overview

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline and was always alert to the hypocrisy and the violence in churches. Yet many readers have ignored how central religion is to his thought, particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804792763
• ISBN13: 9780804792769
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"