Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom

This book explores how Judith Butler’s work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault''s notion of parrhesia, ‘speaking the truth’, can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a theolo...