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

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1990
ISBN
0394751221, 9780394751221
LCC
HQ12 .F6813 1990
Open Library ID
OL15603747M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12046856 bytes)
Series
The History of Sexuality 2
Pages
288\288
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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