Abstract

ABSTRACT Why is it that Foucault's work resists the conceptual pull of traditional political theological discourse? In this essay I explore one approach to this question, arguing that although Foucault does not have an elaborated political theology, his rhetoric of exemplarity offers a model of how one might think a relation between religion and politics. This rhetoric, I show, inherits and recasts the age-old philosophical problem of how to think identity analogically. Foucault's mobilization of exemplarity draws attention to the patterns that delimit political theology as a domain of analysis, while simultaneously suggesting new possibilities that imaginatively redraw these boundaries.

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