'Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self' Times Higher Education In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a decisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure. Exploring the moral reflections of philosophers and physicians of the era, he identifies a growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. At the core of this transformation Foucault found the principles of the 'care of the self': the belief that the self is an object of knowledge to be cultivated over time, and the implications this has for ethics and behaviour. 'Magnificent ... Foucault's great achievement is to illuminate an entire and cohesive body of thought. It is brilliantly done' Daily Telegraph
| ISBN: | 9780241386002 |
| Publication date: | 9th April 2020 |
| Author: | Michel Foucault |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Sex and sexuality, social aspects History of ideas Social and cultural history Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Psychology: sexual behaviour Structuralism and Post-structuralism |