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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure | 
 enlarge | Author: Michel Foucault
Creator: Robert Hurley
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 14591
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0394751221
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
EAN: 9780394751221
ASIN: 0394751221
Publication Date: April 14, 1990
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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?
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 Unconventional History July 21, 2008
Mr. Bloom (New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Foucault's continuation of his impressive History of Human Sexuality looks into the sexual mores and practices of the Ancient Greeks, and attempts to understand the development of sexuality as a moral problematic. Contrary to the conventional wisdom which posits a complete epistemic reversal from the Hellenic world to the Christian world, Foucault poses a more complex network of interconnections between the two paradigms, which lie in a valuation of asceticism. Although The Use of Pleasure is only a small piece of a very large story, it is an interesting development in the hermeneutics of sexuality.
Foucault February 9, 2007
Mrs. Jh Curtis (UK)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
A good account of the history of sexuality. One of the most prominant of writers on the subject next to Freud.
A difficult read, great for refrencing in academic work.
 Good Use of Leisure June 6, 2000
39 out of 43 found this review helpful
Although it is not as theoretically courageous, The Use of Pleasure is tenfold more interesting and approachable than the first volume in this trilogy on the history of sexuality.Foucault delves deep into the recesses of our occidental world by attempting to answer the question, "Why is it that sexuality has become morally problematic?" Why and when did we attribute a negativity to certain sexualities? And what does this imply about sexuality itself? Foucault works with irresistible sources (e.g. Plato's Republic; Hippocrates' Ancient Medicine) in an effort to reconstruct the Hellenic approach to sexuality. The result: a clear and fascinating delineation of the similarities and differences between modern sexual consciousness and "pagan license".
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