The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2: The Use of Pleasure - Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2: The Use of Pleasure - Michel Foucault

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Full bibliographic data for The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2

Title

The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2

Subtitle

The Use of Pleasure

Authors and contributors

By (author) Michel Foucault, Translated by Robert Hurley

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 224 g

Audience

General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780140137347
ISBN 10: 0140137343

Classifications

BIC subject category:HBTB
BISAC category code:HIS054000
BICMainSubject:JFCX
BISAC category code:SEL031000
BISAC category code:PSY016000
BIC subject category:VSP
Dewey:306.7
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:T5.3
BISAC category code:SOC032000

Edition

2, Revised

Edition statement

2nd Revised edition

Illustrations note

notes, bibliography, index

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.

Main description

This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds. But Foucault does far more than merely recreate a vanished era when sex was not a major moral issue (only Plato, like Saint Paul, saw puritanical restraint as the way of wisdom), but makes us rethink all our own assumptions about sex.

Table of contents

Part 1 Introduction: modifications; forms of problematization; morality and practice of the self. Part 2 The moral problematization of pleasures: "Aphrodisia"; "Chresis"; "Enkrateia"; freedom and truth. Part 3 Dietetics: regimen in general; the diet of pleasures; risks and dangers; act, expenditure, death. Part 4 Economics: the wisdom of marriage; Ischomachus' household; three policies of moderation. Part 5 Erotics: a problematic relation; a boy's honour; the object of pleasure. Part 6 True love.