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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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In this sequel to <i>The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction</i>, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.<br><br>Throughout <i>The Use of Pleasure</i> 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 concern
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- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679724698
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (2,585 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, An Introduction (2010)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (1978)
- The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction I (1978)
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure Vol 2 (1990)
- The history of sexuality. Volume 1, An introduction (1990)
- The History of Sexuality [Vol 2 - The Use of Pleasure] (1978)
- The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction Vol 1 (1978)
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self: 003 (Vintage) (2012)
- The history of sexuality, volume 3 : the Care of the Self (1988)
- The Order of Things : an Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1990)
- Foucault Michel the Order of Things (1990)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (2010)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (2012)
- The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: 1 (2012)
- The history of sexuality, volume 3 : the Care of the Self (2012)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (2012)
- The Care of the Self: Volume Three of the History of Sexuality Vol 3 (1986)
- The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: 001 (Vintage) (2012)
- The Care of the Self: of the History of Sexuality volume Three (1986)
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self: 003 (Vintage) (1988)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (1978)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (1986)
- Historia de la sexualidad. Tomo 3, La inquietud de sí (1983)
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