The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure

ISBN-13:	9780394751221
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/14/1990
Series:	History of Sexuality , #2
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	272,087
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

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 Use of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?