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The care of the self / Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: History of sexuality ; v. 3.Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 1990Description: vi, 279 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0140137351
  • 9780140137354
Uniform titles:
  • Souci de soi. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.7
LOC classification:
  • HQ12 .F6813 1990
Contents:
Part I. Dreaming of One's pleasues. 1. The method of Artemidorus -- 2. The analysis -- 3. Dream and act --- Part II. The Cultivation of the shelf --- Part III. Self and others. 1. The marital role -- 2. The political game --- Part IV. The Body. 1. Galen -- 2. Are they Good? Are they Bad? -- 3. The Regimen of pleasures -- 4. The work of the Soul --- Part V. The Wife. 1. The Marriage Tie -- 2. The question of Monopoly -- 3. The Pleasures of marriage --- Part VI. Boys. 1. Plutarch -- 2. Pseudo-Lucian -- 3. A new Erotics.
Summary: "This third volume of Foucault's highly acclaimed examination of the experience of sexuality in modern Western society, investigates the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure. Foucault explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers and physicians of the era to reveal an increasing mistrust of pleasure and a growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. At the core of this transformation Foucault found the principles of the 'care of the self'. He shows how the self is transformed into an object of knowledge and field of actions so as to control, correct, transform, purify and thus find salvation. His graphic and perceptive depiction of this crucial shift in sexual attitudes deepens our understanding of the modern experience of sexuality."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Dreaming of One's pleasues. 1. The method of Artemidorus -- 2. The analysis -- 3. Dream and act --- Part II. The Cultivation of the shelf --- Part III. Self and others. 1. The marital role -- 2. The political game --- Part IV. The Body. 1. Galen -- 2. Are they Good? Are they Bad? -- 3. The Regimen of pleasures -- 4. The work of the Soul --- Part V. The Wife. 1. The Marriage Tie -- 2. The question of Monopoly -- 3. The Pleasures of marriage --- Part VI. Boys. 1. Plutarch -- 2. Pseudo-Lucian -- 3. A new Erotics.

"This third volume of Foucault's highly acclaimed examination of the experience of sexuality in modern Western society, investigates the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure. Foucault explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers and physicians of the era to reveal an increasing mistrust of pleasure and a growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. At the core of this transformation Foucault found the principles of the 'care of the self'. He shows how the self is transformed into an object of knowledge and field of actions so as to control, correct, transform, purify and thus find salvation. His graphic and perceptive depiction of this crucial shift in sexual attitudes deepens our understanding of the modern experience of sexuality."--Publisher's description.

Translation of: Souci de soi.

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