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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__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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- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394741550
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (2,585 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (2010)
- 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 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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