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The history of sexuality. Volume 1, The will to knowledge / Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin modern classicsPublication details: London : Penguin Classics, 2020.Description: 168 pISBN:
  • 9780241385982 (pbk.)
  • 0241385989 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Will to knowledge [Portion of title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ12 .F68 2020 V. 1
Contents:
Part one. We "Other Victorians" -- Part two. The repressive hypothesis -- 1. The incitement to discourse -- 2. The perverse implantation -- Part three. Scientia sexualis -- Part four. The deployment of sexuality -- 1. Objective -- 2. Method -- 3. Domain -- 4. Periodization -- Part five. Right of death and power over life.
Summary: We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.
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Translated from the French.

Reprint. Originally published: 1978.

Includes index.

Part one. We "Other Victorians" -- Part two. The repressive hypothesis -- 1. The incitement to discourse -- 2. The perverse implantation -- Part three. Scientia sexualis -- Part four. The deployment of sexuality -- 1. Objective -- 2. Method -- 3. Domain -- 4. Periodization -- Part five. Right of death and power over life.

We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

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