The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure - Couverture souple

Foucault, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0394751221 ISBN 13 : 9780394751221

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

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 Use 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?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394751221
• ISBN 13: 9780394751221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible