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.

Gunda Werner is Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.