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Pastorale macht en zelf-technieken: Foucault en de ascese van de woestijnvaders
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, Volume 115, Issue 1, mrt. 2023, p. 6 - 18
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- 01 mrt. 2023
Samenvatting
Abstract
Pastoral power and techniques of the self: Foucault and the asceticism of the Desert Fathers
This article argues that Foucault would probably have wanted to discuss a number of subjects and texts which are now almost completely lacking: the novelistic texts known as the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and some hagiographical sources. The Christian views on sexuality were sometimes less ‘orthodox’ and more extreme than what Foucault presented, probably under the influence of Paul Veyne. The Life of Anthony by Athanasius contains a passage which is not analyzed thoroughly in the volume as it was published but which is a key text for the development of Christian hermeneutics and pastoral power.
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