Doctor of Philosophy
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Thomas Cattoi (Coordinator)
Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J.
Jay Emerson Johnson
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary
The central focus of this dissertation is the anthropological question of personal identity from the perspective of Latino/a theology. Using a Foucauldian critique to modern certainties about the self, this dissertation asserts that a notion of human praxis correlative to Foucault’s concept of care of the self opens the possibility of resistance to power and to the free articulation of identities.
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Thomas Cattoi (Coordinator)
Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J.
Jay Emerson Johnson
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary
The central focus of this dissertation is the anthropological question of personal identity from the perspective of Latino/a theology. Using a Foucauldian critique to modern certainties about the self, this dissertation asserts that a notion of human praxis correlative to Foucault’s concept of care of the self opens the possibility of resistance to power and to the free articulation of identities.
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Thomas Cattoi (Coordinator)
Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J.
Jay Emerson Johnson
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary
The central focus of this dissertation is the anthropological question of personal identity from the perspective of Latino/a theology. Using a Foucauldian critique to modern certainties about the self, this dissertation asserts that a notion of human praxis correlative to Foucault’s concept of care of the self opens the possibility of resistance to power and to the free articulation of identities.