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The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault'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 ...Show more
The History of Sexuality 2 - The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
Category: Reference
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure we ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction
Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the Christian notion of the 'flesh' - a transformation that would define ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more
The History of Sexuality v.3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History of Sexuality
The third volume of Foucault's history of sexuality. A sociologist and historian of ideas, Foucault's other works include "Madness and Civilization", "The Archaeology of Knowledge", "The Birth of the Clinic" and "Discipline and Punish".
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Use of Pleasure History of Sexuality Volume 2 by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History of Sexuality
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as ...Show more