Michel Foucault's ascesis and the Christian epistemologization of the subject in Foucault's genealogical technique de soi

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dc.contributor.authorZeyl, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-06T20:13:27Z
dc.date.available2025-02-06T20:13:27Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.descriptionMaster's Thesis 2006
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I examine Foucault's later writings in the 80s on the technology of the self and engage current scholarship that discusses the applicability of Foucault's use of this concept for understanding freedom in Christian theology. After a detailed examination of Foucault's writings on this subject matter I show that lie sharply contrasts an "aesthetics of existence," a term referring to the self in ancient Greece, from a Christian technology of the self. This latter term I show is in fact precisely what Foucault exposes as a constrictive technology of the self which he credits as making an indefinite subject into a predicable, knowable and definite subject. Bringing this prevalent distinction into the greater scholarship on Foucault, I challenge some readings that support the view that a premodern Christian ascesis functioned as an inspirational source for Foucault's "critical ontology" of the modern subject.
dc.identifier.citationZeyl, J. (2006). Michel Foucault’s ascesis and the Christian epistemologization of the subject in Foucault’s genealogical technique de soi. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10756/620246
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInstitute for Christian Studies
dc.titleMichel Foucault's ascesis and the Christian epistemologization of the subject in Foucault's genealogical technique de soi
dc.typeThesis
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