1st Edition
Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom
By Gunda Werner
Copyright 2024
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores how Judith Butler’s work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, ‘speaking the truth’, can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a... Read more
Introduction
1 The capillary effect of power in the field of subject theory: Theological relevance
2 Subjection and control: Michel Foucault’s subject theory
3 Becoming human in freedom – Becoming a subject according to Judith Butler
4 Freedom – (gender) body – power (critique): The possibilities and limits of Foucault’s and Butler’s subject philosophy
5 Challenges for a theology of freedom
6 Outline of a theology of freedom
Biography
Gunda Werner is Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
