The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.

Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?

• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
• The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
• The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
• Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
• The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
• The Foucault Reader
• The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de France)