The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3

Download or read book The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3 written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.