History of Sexuality - Volume 01

The Will to Knowledge

History of Sexuality - Volume 01
Michel Foucault
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9 Apr 2020 UK
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9780241385982
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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 examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.
A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas -- Peter Oborne * Daily Telegraph * A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that ' in the beginning' sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism -- Jasper Griffin * Spectator * Foucault is at his polemical best. He brilliantly succeeds in turning commonplaces on their heads -- Hayden White * The Times Literary Supplement *
Michel Foucalt (1926-84) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France. Foucault' s work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
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ISBN-13: 9780241385982
Published: 9 Apr 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 9mm
Weight: 134g
Pages: 176

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