The History of Sexuality: 1
Author: Foucault, Michel
ISBN: 9780241385982
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Sep 2020
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
The first volume of FoucaultP#39;s pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated?Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;The first part of Michel FoucaultP#39;s landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.
ISBN: 9780241385982
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Sep 2020
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
The first volume of FoucaultP#39;s pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated?Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;The first part of Michel FoucaultP#39;s landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.
