Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 40 No. 1, 2020.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi40108
Vertical Structures of the Christian Regime of Truth
Žarko Ament
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Abstract
This paper analyses the formation of power of the Christian regime of truth in the context of Foucault’s concept of strategic formations. The main emphasis is on the sexual formation of power in three focal points of its agency. The first focal point is formed around the conflict between the Old Testament truth regime and the Canaan cult of fertility. The second focal point is formed around the influence of ancient philosophical thought, primarily through the philosophy of stoicism, which sees abstinence from the sexual act as an opening to divine inspiration and around medical knowledge of antiquity. The third focal point is formed around control mechanisms of the Christian regime of truth through classification, regulation, prohibition, tariffing offences and corrections of doctrine. The main purpose of the formation of power is the vertical structuring of the regime of truth in its anthropomorphic and androcentric immanence.
Keywords
Christian regime of truth; Michel Foucault; strategic formation; sexual formation of power
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