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Title: The History of Sexuality : The Use of Pleasure by MICHEL FOUCAULT ISBN: 0-394-75122-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Destroying the mind forged restraints
Comment: In the second volume of his history of sexuality L'Usage des plaisirs or The Use of Pleasure M. Foucault turns to ancient Greece, an era opulent in honest eroticism. Sexuality is so key to our development that all sorts of restrictions are found in the most primitive of societies. According to M. Foucault, even in the animal kingdom, sexual practice is followed by something remarkably resembling the seeds of moral behavior. We must move outside the confines of society, if only for a short time, if we wish to escape the confining practices of sexual morality. Within this framework, the bathhouse and the orgy chambers may be said to offer refuge transgression from the constraints of civilization. It seems that the only place in society where sexuality has ever been entirely free of moral hindrances has been the fantasizing adolescent mind. For more on this topic, kindly refer to History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction and History of Sexuality Volume 3: The Care of the Self (Also available on Amazon.com).
Miguel Llora
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Use of Leisure
Comment: Although it is not as theoretically courageous, The Use of Pleasure is tenfold more interesting and approachable than the first volume in this trilogy on the history of sexuality.
Foucault delves deep into the recesses of our occidental world by attempting to answer the question, "Why is it that sexuality has become morally problematic?" Why and when did we attribute a negativity to certain sexualities? And what does this imply about sexuality itself?
Foucault works with irresistible sources (e.g. Plato's Republic; Hippocrates' Ancient Medicine) in an effort to reconstruct the Hellenic approach to sexuality. The result: a clear and fascinating delineation of the similarities and differences between modern sexual consciousness and "pagan license".
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Title: The History of Sexuality : The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0394741552 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The History of Sexuality : An Introduction by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0679724699 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0679752552 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault ISBN: 067972110X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0394711068 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.60 |
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