The History of Sexuality: 4 - Confessions of the Flesh

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centurybr>br>In the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the notion of the ''flesh''. Ranging over marriage, procreation and the concept of virginity as a divine state, Foucault brilliantly shows how a fledgling religion altered and defined the Western history of desire. Confessions of the Flesh brings to a conclusion one of the twentieth century''s seminal works.br>br>''A thinker of immense power ... posing questions that still perplex us'' The Times Literary Supplementbr>br>''Required reading ... The appearance of the fourth volume is the most significant event in the world of Foucault scholarship in 20 years ... Essential'' Los Angeles Review of Books>

Product details

• Authors: Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley
• Assisted by: Robert Hurley (Translation), Hurley Robert (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.07.2023
• EAN: 9780241389614
• ISBN: 978-0-241-38961-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, Social and cultural history, Philosophy of religion, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism