The Use of Pleasure
Volume 2 of The History of Sexuality
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The Use of Pleasure
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Narrated by:
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Elliot Fitzpatrick
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Written by:
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Michel Foucault
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Robert Hurley - translator
About this listen
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?
©1984 Éditions Gallimard; translation copyright 1985 by Random House, Inc. (P)2023 Tantor