The Care of the Self, Michel Foucault
The Care of the Self, Michel Foucault
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The Care of the Self
Volume 3 of The History of Sexuality

Author: Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/05/2023

Synopsis

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.

About Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher, historian, social theorist, and philologist. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as the director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany, and at the Institute de Philosophie 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 institution, the College de France.One of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France, Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology, and literary criticism. His works include The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences; Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason; and Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Prerna on September 24, 2021

Oh Foucault, you make me so fervently wary. Like delayed orgasms, I want to stop but I also want to go on, reach that peak and think 'crap, it could've been better. Oh well, next time.' My creative juices are drained right now, but I know this is the best time to talk about Foucault or talk to Fouca......more

Goodreads review by Oliver on August 02, 2011

After finishing the third volume of this series, I realized that my rating for volume 1 (four stars) was too low. By the end of this book, Foucault's method--much slower-paced and careful than in his previous works--has begun to make sense. Volume 2 wasn't bad, its points were interesting and arrang......more

Goodreads review by sologdin on October 04, 2019

This installment advances historically beyond the ancient Athenian polis to the writings of the late Roman Republic and early Empire, developing from the chresis aphrodision to the epimeleia heautou, and their consequent romanization. He opens with a discussion of the Oneirokritikon of Artemidorus Ep......more

Goodreads review by Mohammed on August 20, 2015

This book is not about sex and sexuality, it's rather concerned with the discourse about sex and sexuality between the 17th and 20th century. Foucault discusses discretion in the discourse about sexuality and other related aspects, from a psychological/sociological/political point of view. He first e......more

Goodreads review by Martin on June 18, 2019

Zunächst einmal zur Ausgangssituation: Ich habe diesen dritten Band der Reihe „Sexualität und Wahrheit“ eigentlich nur gelesen, um für die soeben erschienene deutsche Übersetzung des aus dem Nachlass veröffentlichten vierten Band, „Die Geständnisse des Fleisches“, ein wenig auf dem letzten Stand zu......more

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