Michel Foucault

The Care of the Self -- Michel Foucault, Paperback

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Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/28/1988
Pages: 279
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.20w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780394741550

About the Author
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.

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History & Surveys, History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault, Mind & Body, Modern, Paperback, Philosophy, Psychology, Self, Vintage

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