The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

Foucault, Michel; Hurley, Robert J. (Translated by)

ISBN 10: 0679724699 / ISBN 13: 9780679724698

Published by Vintage Books; Random House, New York, 1990

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168 pages; 21 cm. Translation of: Histoire de la sexualite. Paris: Gallimard, 1976. Tight, clean copy. *** "Why has there been such a veritable explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? How did we ever come to believe that our increasing talk about it would make us less repressed? In the first volume of his ambitious multi-part study, Michel Foucault offers a dazzling, 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 question of what we are to what our sexuality is." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: We "other Victorians"; The repressive hypothesis. The incitement to discourse; The perverse implantation; Scientia sexualis; The deployment of sexuality. Objective Method; Domain Periodization; Right of death and power over life. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
• Publisher: Vintage Books; Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679724699
• ISBN 13: 9780679724698
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • A BARGAIN BASEMENT
  • New Books

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Synopsis

The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.

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.