Foucault and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity
Why is it that Foucault's work resists the conceptual pull of traditional political theological discourse? In this essay I explore one approach to this question, arguing that although Foucault does not have an elaborated political theology, his rhetoric of exemplarity offers a model of how one...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Subtitles: | Roundtable Discussion: Michel Foucault and Political Theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2021]
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Political theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Political theology
/ Example (Motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Exemplarity
B Analogy B Political Theology B Foucault |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Why is it that Foucault's work resists the conceptual pull of traditional political theological discourse? In this essay I explore one approach to this question, arguing that although Foucault does not have an elaborated political theology, his rhetoric of exemplarity offers a model of how one might think a relation between religion and politics. This rhetoric, I show, inherits and recasts the age-old philosophical problem of how to think identity analogically. Foucault's mobilization of exemplarity draws attention to the patterns that delimit political theology as a domain of analysis, while simultaneously suggesting new possibilities that imaginatively redraw these boundaries. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866814 |