Convulsing bodies : religion and resistance in Foucault /

Jordan, Mark D.,

Convulsing bodies : religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : embodied reading or the masked philosopher -- Hunter of the sacred -- The dismembered assassin and the well scrubbed delinquents -- The buffoon-tyrant and the possessed nuns -- Chatting genitals -- The sobbing matron and the loquacious monk -- The artist of pleasures -- The violated mother and the naked philosopher -- Conclusion : Embodied writing or Among the mourners.



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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 --Religion.


Philosophy-Ancient
Human body (Philosophy)


Electronic Books.

B2430 / .C668 2015