The use of pleasure /
Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley.
- First Vintage Books edition.
- vii, 293 pages ; 18 cm
- The history of sexuality ; v. 2 .
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. English Histoire de la sexualité. v. 2. .
- History of sexuality ; v. 2. .
Originally published in France as L'Usage des plaisirs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translator's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Modification -- 2. Forms of problematization -- 3. Morality and proctice of the self -- Part One. The Moral problematization of pleasures -- 1. Aphrodisia -- 2. Cheesis -- 3. Enkrateia -- 4. Freedom and truth -- Part Two. Dietetics -- 1. Regimen in general -- 2. the diet of pleasures -- 3. Risks and dangers -- 4. Act, Expenditure, death -- Part Three. Economics -- 1. The wisdom of marriage -- 2. Ischomachus' household -- 3. Three policies of moderation -- Part Fou. Erotics -- 1. A problematic relation -- 2. A boy's honor -- 3. The object of pleasure -- Part Five. True love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.