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The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault

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The History of Sexuality

The Care of the Self

Vintage (Nov 28, 1988)
9780394741550
| Paperback
288 pages | 132 x 203 mm | English
Dewey 306.7
LC Classification HQ12 .F6813 1980
LC Control No. 79007460

Genre

  • Philosophy And Literature

Plot

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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