Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom

This book explores how Judith Butler's work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, 'speaking the truth', can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom.

Autorentext

Gunda Werner is Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Klappentext

This book explores how Judith Butler's work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, 'speaking the truth', can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom.

Inhalt

Introduction

1 The capillary effect of power in the field of subject theory: Theological relevance

2 Subjection and control: Michel Foucault's subject theory

3 Becoming human in freedom - Becoming a subject according to Judith Butler

4 Freedom - (gender) body - power (critique): The possibilities and limits of Foucault's and Butler's subject philosophy

5 Challenges for a theology of freedom

6 Outline of a theology of freedom