The History of Sexuality v.2: The Use of Pleasure
Author(s): Michel Foucault
Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.228
- : 01 September 1992
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Michel Foucault
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 304
- : Social & cultural history; Gender studies; Sexual behaviour; History of ideas, intellectual history; Popular psychology
- : notes, bibliography, index
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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.
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.
