Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love by J. Joyce Schuld

Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love by J. Joyce Schuld

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ISBN: 9780268028695

University of Notre Dame Press | 24 January 2004

Paperback | 312 pages

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 descriptions, metaphors, and methods accessible to Christian readers is to examine his thought through a premodern lens.