Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century. He is known for many significant writings, including TheArchaeology of Knowledge (1969) and the first volume of The History of Sexuality (1976). Jeremy R. Carrette is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Stirling.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations and Transcripts
Prologue to a confession of the flesh
RELIGION AND CULTURE BY MICHEL FOUCAULT
Part I: Madness
religion and the avant-garde
1. Religious deviations and medical knowledge (1962)
2. A preface to transgression (1963)
3. The debate on the novel (1964)
4. The prose of Actaeon (1964)
5. Philosophy and the death of God (1966)
6. Who are you
Professor Foucault? (1967)
Part II: Religion
politics and the East
7. On religion (1978)
8. Michel Foucault and Zen: a stay in a Zen temple (1978)
9. Sexuality and power (1978)
10. Is it useless to revolt? (1979)
11. Pastoral power and political reason (1979)
Part III: Christianity
sexuality and the self: fragments of an unpublished volume
12. On the government of the living (1980)
13. About the beginning of the hermeneutics of the self (1980)
14. Sexuality and solitude (1980)
15. The battle for chastity (1982)
Postscript: 'I am not what I am' - Foucault
Christian asceticism and a 'way out' of sexuality
Notes on Contributors and Translators
Index
