The History of Sexuality the Care of the Self - Softcover

Michel Foucault,Robert Hurley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140137351 ISBN 13: 9780140137354

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK), 2006

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From the Inside Flap:

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.

From the Back Cover:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0140137351
• ISBN 13: 9780140137354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3