|
" On the Use and Abuse of Religion: Reading Foucault on History, Truth, and Subjectivity "
Daniel J. Schultz
Davidson, Arnold I.
| Document Type
|
:
|
Latin Dissertation
|
| Language of Document
|
:
|
English
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
804748
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
TL49584
|
| Call number
|
:
|
1957367423; 10603870
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Wajdi, Firdaus
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
On the Use and Abuse of Religion: Reading Foucault on History, Truth, and Subjectivity\ Daniel J. SchultzDavidson, Arnold I.
|
| College
|
:
|
The University of Chicago
|
| Date
|
:
|
2017
|
| Degree
|
:
|
Ph.D.
|
| field of study
|
:
|
Divinity
|
| student score
|
:
|
2017
|
| Page No
|
:
|
321
|
| Note
|
:
|
Committee members: Coyne, Ryan; Meltzer, Françoise
|
| Note
|
:
|
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23431-2
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This dissertation offers a sustained analysis (both exegetical and critical) of the narrative role and conceptual function of religion internal to the work of Michel Foucault. I argue that while Foucault’s work does not yield a single coherent philosophy of religion, there is nevertheless coherence on the level of method that has implications for how we understand religious discourse, how this discourse renders itself intelligible, and how religion as a category of analysis is taken up and made to mean across philosophy and politics. By carefully excavating the use of religious examples in the development of his model of ethics, I show how Foucault’s conception of ethics mimics and accommodates styles of religious practice (e.g. askesis), while simultaneously working to unravel certain religious, and religiously inflected, forms of subjectivity (e.g. the hermeneutics of desire). I explore this tension through Foucault’s own archives – his historical analysis of Christianity and his philosophical journalism in Revolutionary Iran – and beyond, asking: what implications does his analysis of these heterogeneous forms of religious practice and religious subjectivity have for current debates over secularism, rights discourse, religious and postcolonial historiography, and philosophical conceptions of critique? Across these examples I show how Foucault attempts to fragment the sovereignty of a capital ‘R’ religion (in both in positive and negative figurations), and instead opts for a mode of analysis that engages the historically specific conceptual structure of forms of experience in their religious and non-religious dimensions alike.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Philosophy of religion
|
| Descriptor
|
:
|
Philosophy, religion and theology;Foucault, Michel;Franciscan iconography;Iranian revolution;Kant, Immanuel;Subjectivity
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Davidson, Arnold I.
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
DivinityThe University of Chicago
|
| |