The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self - Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self - Michel Foucault

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Full bibliographic data for The History of Sexuality

Title

The History of Sexuality

Subtitle

The Care of the Self

Authors and contributors

By (author) Michel Foucault, Translated by Robert Hurley

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 214 g

Audience

General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780140137354
ISBN 10: 0140137351

Classifications

BISAC category code:PHI016000
Dewey:306.7
BISAC category code:PHI015000
BIC subject category:VSP
Dewey:306.70937
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:T17.9
BISAC category code:PSY016000
BICMainSubject:JFCX

Edition

3, Revised

Edition statement

3rd Revised edition

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint name

Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date

01 January 2006

Publication City/Country

London/GB

Biographical note

One of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France, Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.

Flap copy

The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." 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 theical 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.

Review quote

" The Care of the Self shares with the writings on which it draws the characteristic of being carefully constructed, exquisitely reasoned and internally cogent." -- The New York Times Book Review " Foucault is a thinker from whose writing one can infer lessons for our modern lives and dilemmas." -- Boston Globe

Main description

The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of " the experience of sexuality in Western society." 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 theical 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.