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Foucault and Classical Antiquity

Power, Ethics and Knowledge

Wolfgang Detel author David Wigg-Wolf translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Nov '10

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This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought.

This 2005 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 an understanding of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a 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.

ISBN: 9780521179720

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm

Weight: 430g

292 pages