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The Use of Pleasure
- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Narrator
- Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 29 August 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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?
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- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Narrator
- Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duration
- 9 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9798350818567
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Philosophy of mind, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Psychology
Synopsis
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?
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