FOUCAULT AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY: POWER, ETHICS AND KNOWLEDGE; TRANS. BY DAVID WIGG-WOLF.
Series: MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Published: 2005
Place of publication: CAMBRIDGE
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 281
Description: "This 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 a new understanding of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a fresh and 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."--BOOK JACKET.