(P/B) THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY (VOLUME 2)

Παρουσίαση

The Use of Pleasure (and the two companion volumes) offers an original and controversial account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex, as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book is full of extraordinary insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds. But Foucault does far more than merely re-create a vanished era when sex was not a major moral issue (only Plato, like Saint Paul, saw puritanical restraint as the way of wisdom); he makes us rethink our own assumptions about sex. (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Modifications
Chapter 2: Forms of Problematization
Chapter 3: Morality and Practice of the Self
PART ONE - The Moral Problematization of Pleasures
Chapter 1: Aphrodisia
Chapter 2: Chresis
Chapter 3: Enkrateia
Chapter 4: Freedom and Truth
PART TWO - Dietetics
Chapter 1: Regimen in General
Chapter 2: The Diet of Pleasures
Chapter 3: Risks and Dangers
Chapter 4: Act, Expenditure, Death
PART THREE - Economics
Chapter 1: The Wisdom of Marriage
Chapter 2: Ischomachus' Household
Chapter 3: Three Policies of Moderation
PART FOUR - Erotics
Chapter 1: A Problematic Relation
Chapter 2: A Boy's Honor
Chapter 3: The Object of Pleasure
PART FIVE - True Love
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index