Description
| Product ID: | 9780241385982 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | The History of Sexuality: 1 |
| Subtitle: | The Will to Knowledge |
| Authors: | Author: Michel Foucault |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, History of ideas, Sociology, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, History of ideas, Sociology: sexual relations, Sexual behaviour |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure. 'A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas' The Times Literary Supplement ''A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism'' Spectator |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-09 |
