Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love

by Schuld and J. Joyce Schuld

Book Overview

Using Augustine as a conversation partner, this important new book explores the value of Michel Foucault's controversial writings for theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and cultural theorists. J. Joyce Schuld demonstrates the promising possibilities as well as the difficulties and limits of applying Foucault's social criticisms within Christian contexts. She maintains that the best way to make Foucault's postmodern concerns and his unsettling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268028699
• ISBN13: 9780268028695
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"