Foucault and classical Antiquity: power, ethics and knowledge
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521833813
- ISBN10 0521833817
- Type BOOK
- Pages 281
- Published 2005
- Bookbinding Cloth
Subjects
Ancient PhilosophyFoucault and classical Antiquity: power, ethics and knowledge
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
This 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 a new understanding of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a fresh and 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.