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Title: Care of the Self

Author: Michel Foucault

ISBN: 9780394741550

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1988

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Number of Pages: 288

Condition: Used Copy

Publisher : 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.