The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3

The Care of the Self

• Author(s): Michel Foucault,
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 0307819264
  ISBN_13: 9780307819260
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Movements / Post-Structuralism , Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory , Philosophy / Social ,

Description:... Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.