The History of Sexuality: 2 - The Use of Pleasure

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.

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• Authors: Michel Foucault
• Assisted by: Robert Hurley (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780241385999
• ISBN: 978-0-241-38599-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; History of Ideas, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Sexual Behaviour, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism