Schachterle/John Cassian, 3. Foucault, Cassian, and the Creation of Subjects

Establishes how Cassian’s creation of monastic subjectivity creates monks for whom monastic identity is necessarily separate from other roles within the institutional Church. To do this, I use Michel Foucault’s notion of the creation of subjects to analyze Cassian’s formation of a specifically Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his audience of Gallican monks.