The History of Sexuality Volume 3

'Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self' Times Higher Education

Inthe third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modernWestern society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal adecisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure.Exploring the moral reflections of philosophers and physicians of theera, he identifies a growing anxiety over sexual activity and itsconsequences. At the core of this transformation Foucault found theprinciples of the 'care of the self': the belief that the self is anobject of knowledge to be cultivated over time, and the implicationsthis has for ethics and behaviour.

'Magnificent ... Foucault's great achievement is to illuminate an entire and cohesive body of thought. It is brilliantly done' Daily Telegraph