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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2012
ISBN
9780307819260
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1942615 bytes)
Volume
3
Edition
Reprint
Pages
258\0
Time added
2020-08-16 17:08:46

Description

Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.

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