Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Mendieta, Eduardo | O'Byrne, Anne | Harvey, Robert | Oksala, Johanna.
Date
2015-12-01
Keywords
Philosophy
Department
Department of Philosophy.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76630
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
I focus on Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France in order to show how his genealogy of the modern normalizing society leads him to trace the historical beginnings and the condition of possibility of bio-disciplinary practices of individual and collective government- together with the discourse of the hermeneutics of the subject that serves to justify them- to the organization and development of the Christian pastorate from the fourth century onwards. Taking up Nietzsche's critique of Western Christianity, Foucault analyses the emergence and deployment of the procedures or modalities of modern governmentality as effects of the extension or generalization of pastoral power beyond its ecclesiastical institutionalization after the Reformation. | I focus on Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France in order to show how his genealogy of the modern normalizing society leads him to trace the historical beginnings and the condition of possibility of bio-disciplinary practices of individual and collective government- together with the discourse of the hermeneutics of the subject that serves to justify them- to the organization and development of the Christian pastorate from the fourth century onwards. Taking up Nietzsche's critique of Western Christianity, Foucault analyses the emergence and deployment of the procedures or modalities of modern governmentality as effects of the extension or generalization of pastoral power beyond its ecclesiastical institutionalization after the Reformation. | 266 pages
Recommended Citation
Prado Ballarin, Maria Angeles, "Secularization as Pastoral Power: Governmentality and Christianity" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2520.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2520