Title:
The history of sexuality. Volume 2, The use of pleasure
Edition:
Vintage books ed.
Publication Date:
1990
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, [1990].
Physical Description:
vii, 293 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780394751221
Abstract:
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? -- From publisher's description.
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1985.
Contents:
Modifications -- Forms of problematization -- Morality and practice of the self -- pt. 1. The moral problematization of pleasures -- Aphrodisia -- Chrēsis -- Enkrateia -- Freedom and truth -- pt. 2. Dietetics -- Regimen in general -- The diet of pleasures -- Risks and dangers -- Act, expenditure, death -- pt. 3. Economics -- The wisdom of marriage -- Ischolmachus' household -- Three policies of moderation -- pt. 4. Erotics -- A problematic relation -- A boy's honor -- The object of pleasure -- pt. 5. True love.
Language:
English
