Fascinating Flesh: Revealing the Catholic Foucault

The Catholic dimension in Foucault’s examination of the Church Fathers is featured because neglect it may misrepresent very notions virginity and flesh Confessions Flesh. Failure to appreciate tension between a seditious an incarnational implicitly confines Patristic vision limited modern field “sexuality.” fourth volume might be best interpreted against background investigations that prompted Foucault immerse himself religious texts spiritual experiences: his early writings on literature; later interest lectures pastoral technologies; witnessing political-spiritual movements both Islam (the Iranian revolution) Catholicism anti-military protests South America anti-Communism denunciations Pope John Paul II).