The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2 The Use of Pleasure

by FOUCAULT, MICHEL

• ISBN13: 9780394751221
• ISBN10: 0394751221
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-04-14
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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?

Author Biography

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.

Table of Contents

Translator's Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(2)
Modifications	3	(11)
Forms of Problematization	14	(11)
Morality and Practice of the Self	25	(8)
PART ONE The Moral Problematization of Pleasures	33	(62)
Aphrodisia	38	(15)
Chresis	53	(10)
Enkrateia	63	(15)
Freedom and Truth	78	(17)
PART TWO Dietetics	95	(46)
Regimen in General	99	(10)
The Diet of Pleasures	109	(8)
Risks and Dangers	117	(8)
Act, Expenditure, Death	125	(16)
PART THREE Economics	141	(44)
The Wisdom of Marriage	143	(9)
Ischomachus' Household	152	(14)
Three Policies of Moderation	166	(19)
PART FOUR Erotics	185	(42)
A Problematic Relation	187	(17)
A Boy's Honor	204	(11)
The Object of Pleasure	215	(12)
PART FIVE True Love	227	(20)
Conclusion	247	(8)
Notes	255	(18)
Bibliography	273	(8)
Index	281