(P/B) THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY (VOLUME 3)

Παρουσίαση

This third volume of Foucault's highly acclaimed examination of the experience of sexuality in modern Western society, investigates the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure.
Foucault explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers and physicians of the era to reveal an increasing mistrust of pleasure and a growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. At the core of this transformation Foucault found the principles of the 'care of the self'. He shows how the self is transformed into an object of knowledge and field of actions so as to control, correct, transform, purify and thus find salvation. His graphic and perceptive depiction of this crucial shift in sexual attitudes deepens our understanding of the modern experience of sexuality. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's Acknowledgments
PART ONE: Dreaming of One's Pleasures
1 The Method of Artemidorus
2 The Analysis
3 Dream and Act
PART TWO: The Cultivation of the Self
PART THREE: Self and Others
1 The Marital Role
2 The Political Game
PART FOUR: The Body
1 Galen
2 Are They Good? Are They Bad?
3 The Regimen of Pleasures
4 The Work of the Soul
PART FIVE: The Wife
1 The Marriage Tie
2 The Question of Monopoly
3 The Pleasures of Marriage
PART SIX: Boys
1 Plutarch
2 Pseudo-Lucian
3 A New Erotics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index