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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    22 September 2009
    06 January 2005
    ISBN:
    9780511487156
    9780521833813
    9780521179720
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487156
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.604kg, 292 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.43kg, 292 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Modern European Philosophy
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History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
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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.

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