The Use of Pleasure - History of Sexuality 2

Informationen zum Autor Michel Foucault (Author) 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. Zusammenfassung This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds. But Foucault does far more than merely recreate a vanished era when sex was not a major moral issue (only Plato, like Saint Paul, saw puritanical restraint as the way of wisdom), but makes us rethink all our own assumptions about sex.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley
• Assisted by: Robert Hurley (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.1998
• EAN: 9780140137347
• ISBN: 978-0-14-013734-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History of Ideas, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, Ancient History, ancient philosophy, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Sexual Behaviour, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism & Post-structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Essays*