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Archives and the Event of God

The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology

By David Galston
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Hardcover : 9780773537767, 176 pages, December 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773580589, 176 pages, December 2010

Description

The philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects that Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge and Discipline and Punish have had on the study of theology and religion.

Reviews

“[T]his book is timely and demonstrates in an innovative way the importance of Foucault’s approach to understanding religion within contemporary constellations of power.” Foucault Studies