The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
304 pages
|Published: 29 Oct 1984
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ISBN: 9780394751221
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 1 January 1990
Description
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 Uses 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?