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The monumental History of sexuality with a new graphic design.
Throughout the 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated his work at the Collège de France to analyzing the place of sexuality in Western society, which gave rise to the four-volume History of Sexuality . His reflections found sex and sexuality to be the cause of all events in social life. The philosopher undertook historical research, establishing an anthropology and discourse analysis of this topic so fundamental to the human condition.
The third volume, The Care of the Self , studies the development, in the first two centuries of our era, of the art of existence created by the Greeks. Thus, it examines the mode of subjectivation characteristic of this period to understand its difference both in relation to Greece, which created the aesthetics of existence, and in relation to Christianity, which inclined it toward a hermeneutics of desire.
“ History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self is a study of the philosophical, moral, and medical reflection on pleasures and sexual conduct that revisits the same themes as The Use of Pleasures: caring for the body and health, relationships with women and marriage, with young men, and with truth.” - Roberto Machado
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