
Foucault and Classical Antiquity
Power, Ethics and Knowledge
Wolfgang Detel(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 6. January 2005
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-0-521-83381-3 (ISBN)
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Description
This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought, in particular his famous analysis of Greek history of sexuality. Wolfgang Detel offers an understanding of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a complex reading of the texts which Foucault discusses, covering topics such as Aristotle's ethics and theory of sex, Hippocratic dietetics, the earliest treatises on economics, and Plato's theory of love. The result is a philosophically rich and probing critique of Foucault's later writings, and a persuasive account of the relation between ethics, power and knowledge in classical antiquity. His book will have a wide appeal to readers interested in Foucault and in Greek thought and culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-83381-3 (9780521833813)
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11/2010
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05/2005
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Persons
Wolfgang Detel is Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt.
Content
Introduction; 1. Morals, knowledge and power; 2. The ethical teleology; 3. The scientific regimen; 4. The asymmetrical relationship; 5. The epistemic eros; 6. Gender, nature and reference.