The History of Sexuality Paperback by Michel Foucault

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1990-04-14)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 176 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679724698
• Item Weight: 170.1 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.18 x 0.48 cm

Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century.

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

About the Author

MICHEL FOUCAULT was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi 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 institutions, the College de France.