The History Of Sexuality V.1: The Will To Knowledge

Author: Michel Foucault

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ISBN : 9780140268683
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
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Publication date : 01 October 1998
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 10mm
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Author : Michel Foucault
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Pages : 176
BIC subject : Sexual behaviour; Gender studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Popular psychology
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Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

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One of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France, Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.

Part 1 We "other victorians". Part 2 The repressive hypothesis: the incitement to discourse; the peverse implantation. Part Scientia sexualis. Part 4 The deployment of sexuality: objective; method; domain; periodization. Part 5 Right of death and power over life.

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