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Translation of Histoire de la sexualité. Vol. 1 is a translation of: La volonté de savoir.

Translation of: Histoire de la sexualité

Volume 1: "Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is."--Publisher description.

Volume 2: "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 Use 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?"--Publisher description.

Volume 3: "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."--Publisher description.

Volume 4: "One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault made an indelible impact on Western thought. The first three volumes in his History of Sexuality--which trace cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing that it has been profoundly shaped by the power structures applied to it--constitute some of Foucault's most important work. This fourth volume posits that the origins of totalitarian self-surveillance began with the Christian practice of confession. The manuscript had long been secreted away, in accordance with Foucault's stated wish that there be no posthumous publication of his unpublished work. With the sale of the Foucault archives in 2013, Foucault's nephew felt that the time had come to publish this final volume in Foucault's seminal history. Philosophically, it is a chapter in his hermeneutics of the desiring subject. Historically, it focuses on the remodeling of subjectivity carried out by the early Christian Fathers, who set out to transform the classical Logos of truthful human discourse into a theologos--the divine Word of a pure sovereign. What did God will in the matter of righteous sexual practice? Foucault parses out the logic of the various responses proffered by theologians over the centuries, culminating with Saint Augustine's fascinating discussion of the libido. Sweeping and deeply personal, Confessions of the Flesh is a tour de force from a philosophical master."--Publisher description.

Title of vol. 4: Confessions of the flesh : the history of sexuality

Use of pleasure.

Care of the self.

Social theory.

Confessions of the flesh.

Online version: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Histoire de la sexualité. English. History of sexuality. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, ©1978-<c1986>

Online version: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Histoire de la sexualité. English. History of sexuality. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, ©1978-<c1986>

v. 1. An introduction

v. 2. The use of pleasure

v. 3. The care of the self

v. 4. Confessions of the flesh.

Volume 1: Part 1: We "Other Victorians"

Part 2: The repressive hypothesis : The incitement to discourse

The perverse implantation

Part 3: Scientia sexualis

Part 4: The deployment of sexuality : Objective

Method

Domain

Periodization

Part 5: Right of death and power over life.

Volume 2: Modifications

Forms of problematization

Morality and practice of the self

Part 1: The moral problematization of pleasures : Aphrodisia

Chresis

Enkrateia

Freedom and truth

Part 2: Dietetics : Regimen in general

The diet of pleasures

Risks and dangers

Act, expenditure, death

Part 3: Economics : The wisdom of marriage

Ischomachus' household

Three policies of moderation

Part 4: Erotics : A problematic relation

A boy's honor

The object of pleasure

Part 5: True love.

Volume 3: Part 1: Dreaming of one's pleasures : The method of Artemidorus

The analysis

Dream and act

Part 2: The cultivation of the self

Part 3: Self and others : The marital role

The political game

Part 4: The body : Galen

Are they good? Are they bad?

The regimen of pleasures

The work of the soul

Part 5: The wife : The marriage tie

The question of monopoly

The pleasures of marriage

Part 6: Boys : Plutarch

Pseudo-Lucian

A new erotics.

Volume 4: Part 1. The formation of a new experience : Creation, procreation

The laborious baptism

The second penance

The art of arts

Part 2. Being virgin : Virginity and continence

On the arts of virginity

Virginity and self-knowledge

Part 3. Being married : The duty of spouses

The good and the goods of marriage

The libidinization of sex.

Sex customs > History.

Sex > History.

Sexual ethics > History.

Sexual Behavior - history.

Sex - history.

Collected works.

History.