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Loading... The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure (original 1984; edition 1990)by Michel Foucault (Author), Robert Hurley (Translator)
Work InformationThe History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault (1984)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Much better than vol.1; and a great final section about Greek love of boys/men, Platonic/Socratic love, and "true" love. ( ) I met this guy at a party who wanted to do nothing but talk about Foucault (I didn't like him very much). HIS opinion was that Foucault was awful. I wouldn't say awful, but he is not easy to read. If I met Foucault at a party, I would probably like him as much as I did that guy who insulted him. But he wrote about interesting things. No rating because I skipped about half the book. Oops! no reviews | add a review
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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? No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.7Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, loveLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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