Foucault, pastoral power, and optics
The article shows that in Foucault's late 1970s and early 1980s analyses of pastoral, conductive power-most essentially in early and medieval Christianity-the issue of sight and visual perception recurs and occupies a crucial status. In Foucault's discussion, these Christian relations of p...
| Publié dans: | Critical research on religion |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage
[2015]
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Critical research on religion
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Pouvoir pastoral
/ Visibilité
/ Transparence (art)
/ Gouvernabilité
/ Libéralisme
/ Économie
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AD Sociologie des religions CG Christianisme et politique VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Michel Foucault
B Optics B Christianity B Governmentality |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | The article shows that in Foucault's late 1970s and early 1980s analyses of pastoral, conductive power-most essentially in early and medieval Christianity-the issue of sight and visual perception recurs and occupies a crucial status. In Foucault's discussion, these Christian relations of power, knowledge, and truth are attached with a surveying gaze that is both totalizing as well as individualizing, one that is mobilized by the thrust towards perfect visibility, transparency, and illumination of the subject turned into an object. The intention is also to develop Foucault's analysis further, by demonstrating how Christian, providential government can be and actually has been detached from the totalizing modality of optics, and instead become articulated with a very different sort of sight and seeing, one that is non-totalizing and affirms its own limits. The article maintains that from this angle, Foucault's conception of modern, economic-liberal governmentality has essential convergences with the Christian form of providential government, even though Foucault himself leaves these convergences partly inarticulate. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2050303214567668 |