ISBN10: 0394741552, ISBN13: 9780394741550, [publisher: Vintage Books] Softcover In this third installment, 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. Foucault 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 acitivity and its consequences. Notes, Bibliography, Index. 279p.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]