Foucault and Augustine : reconsidering power and love / J. Joyce Schuld.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2003.Description: x, 299 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0268028680 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0268028699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 21 Sch81f
LOC classification:
  • B2430.F724 S37 2003
Contents:
Dynamic fragility : an analysis of power and love -- Harmony and rupture : a theology of relational dependence -- Power's social omnipresence -- Power's social mechanics -- Ambiguous relations and intransigent dangers -- Vertigo and complicity : unraveling the complexities of social evil -- The namelessness of social evil -- Anonymity, authorship, and responsibility -- The enigmatic closeness of social evil -- Metaphors of permeation -- Desires, habits, and governance : a case study of performative vulnerabilities -- The power of desiring and social configuration -- The power of habituation and social configuration -- Fragile relations and the price of perfection : the lust for certidude -- Moral ambiguity and the search for social perfection -- The wisdom of sorrow and the ethic of humility -- Modern transformations of sin and salvation -- Deconstructing privileged discourses : the ambiguity of social achievements -- The rhetoric of glory : ancient dangers of ordering disorder -- The rhetoric of progress : modern dangers of ordering disorder.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 194 Sch81f (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000863763

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.

Dynamic fragility : an analysis of power and love -- Harmony and rupture : a theology of relational dependence -- Power's social omnipresence -- Power's social mechanics -- Ambiguous relations and intransigent dangers -- Vertigo and complicity : unraveling the complexities of social evil -- The namelessness of social evil -- Anonymity, authorship, and responsibility -- The enigmatic closeness of social evil -- Metaphors of permeation -- Desires, habits, and governance : a case study of performative vulnerabilities -- The power of desiring and social configuration -- The power of habituation and social configuration -- Fragile relations and the price of perfection : the lust for certidude -- Moral ambiguity and the search for social perfection -- The wisdom of sorrow and the ethic of humility -- Modern transformations of sin and salvation -- Deconstructing privileged discourses : the ambiguity of social achievements -- The rhetoric of glory : ancient dangers of ordering disorder -- The rhetoric of progress : modern dangers of ordering disorder.

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