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Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of an Errant Postmodernist
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Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of an Errant Postmodernist

The New Yoder, p.90
The Lutterworth Press
09/11/2011

Abstract

Alethiology Anabaptist Behavioral sciences Christianity Concept of being Continental philosophy Enlightenment Entertainment Epistemology Esotericism Genealogy Historical methodology Historiography History History of philosophy Jokes Leisure studies Mennonite Metaphilosophy Metaphysics Nietzschean philosophy Ontological properties Ontology Particularity Philosophy Postmodern philosophy Practical theology Protestantism Recreation Religion Religious experience philosophy Spiritual belief systems Theology Truth Western philosophy
My purpose in this essay is to share with you my experience, as a selfidentified Anabaptist Christian, of reading some so-called postmodern social thought, especially that of Michel Foucault. I would like to begin, however, with some comments on the problematic terms of my title. I have very little interest in clarifying exactly what postmodernism is , partly because I simply find that project uninteresting, and partly because I don’t believe postmodernism is anything, exactly. It seems fair, nonetheless, that we allow that there are postmodernists, inasmuch as there are a bunch of scholarly folk nowadays who refer to themselves

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