By Wolfgang Detel
This 2005 booklet is a serious exam of Michel Foucault's relation to old Greek proposal, particularly his well-known research of Greek heritage of sexuality. Wolfgang Detel bargains an figuring out of Foucault's theories of energy and information in keeping with smooth analytical theories of technology and ideas of strength. He bargains a fancy interpreting of the texts which Foucault discusses, masking themes comparable to Aristotle's ethics and thought of intercourse, Hippocratic dietetics, the earliest treatises on economics, and Plato's thought of affection. the result's a philosophically wealthy and probing critique of Foucault's later writings, and a persuasive account of the relation among ethics, energy and information in classical antiquity. His publication may have a large attract readers attracted to Foucault and in Greek inspiration and tradition.
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