The Care of the Self

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ISBN-10: 0394741552
ISBN-13: 9780394741550
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 11/28/1988
Dimensions: 8.22" L, 5.20" W, 0.72" H

The Care of the Self

byMichel Foucault

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Overview

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.

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"The Care of the Self shares with the writings on which it draws the characteristic of being carefully constructed, exquisitely reasoned and internally cogent." – The New York Times Book Review

"Foucault is a thinker from whose writing one can infer lessons for our modern lives and dilemmas."– Boston Globe

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Details

ISBN-10: 0394741552
ISBN-13: 9780394741550
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 11/28/1988
Dimensions: 8.22" L, 5.20" W, 0.72" H
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