Michel Foucault
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| Original Title: | Histoire de la sexualité 2. l'usage des plaisirs |
| ISBN: | 0394751221 (ISBN13: 9780394751221) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The History of Sexuality #2 |
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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 Uses 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?Declare Based On Books The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (The History of Sexuality #2)
| Title | : | The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (The History of Sexuality #2) |
| Author | : | Michel Foucault |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | 1990 by Vintage (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. History. Theory. Sexuality. Sociology |
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A fine short survey of classical Greek sexual thinking, yet Michel Foucault's work with these primary sources isn't as impressive as it is with materials from the 17th and 18th centuries. A heavy reliance on two major 1970s-era histories by KJ Dover seems to suggest that Foucault isn't so much breaking new ground as sowing seeds in already-fertilized fields. All in all, though, this was a worthwhile and interesting read, even if it wasn't as provocative as Volume 1.better than the first one.
It does indeed seem to be the case that many of the ancient Greeks and Romans were oblivious to what we see as the ethical issues pertaining to human sexuality. Of course, given our limited sources, it is difficult to generalize with a high degree of certainty. What we have was written by elites and filtered through elites over centuries when women were regarded as inferior, adulthood started earlier, marriages were frequently arranged and various forms of slavery (often including a sexual
A meditation on the problematization of desire in Ancient Greece. Foucault presents the era's ethics of pleasure in stark contrast to the hermeneutics of desire that emerged with early Christian doctrine.
In this book, Foucault seeks to show how sexual acts and sexual pleasures were problematized in classical Greek thought, specifically by the doctors and philosophers of the time period beginning with the Pre-Socratics, and continuing until shortly after Aristotle. Foucault begins with an extended discussion of how the Greeks talked about sexuality, and how they viewed morality in relation to sexual relations. He then goes on to discuss what he sees to be the three primary areas of
The level of hatred that I have for Foucault and his bullshit really cannot be overstated.
In this, it is proved that sexuality (or rather the frequency of its practice, and between whom) was not considered to be a moral sin as it is indicated in Judeo-Christian (and even current) mores. But sexuality was so closely intertwined with asceticism within Greek culture that to practice a sort of dietetics was necessary in order to be considered a capable man; to know when, how, how often, who to practice ones sexuality on was indicative of ones ability to be a functioning political actor.
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