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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

By Michel Foucault; Robert Hurley

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2012
ISBN
0307819272, 9780307819277
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1977422 bytes)
Series
The History of Sexuality
Volume
2
Pages
304\0
Time added
2020-08-16 17:05:39

Description

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?

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