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The Care of the Self

Volume 3 of the History of Sexuality

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The Care of the Self

By: Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley - translator
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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.

©1984 Éditions Gallimard; translation copyright 1986 by Random House, Inc. (P)2023 Tantor Greek & Roman Modern Society Sociology Consciousness & Thought Philosophy Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Stoicism

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