Care of the Self the History of Sexuality
Foucault, Michel
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BOOK SUMMARY
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,
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 the classical 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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"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
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0394741552
ISBN(13-digit): 9780394741550
Copyright: 1988
Dewey Decimal: 306.7
Library of Congress: 79007460
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.7
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