The History of Sexuality: 4 : Confessions of the Flesh - Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality: 4

Confessions of the Flesh

By: Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley (Translator)

Hardcover | 13 April 2021 | Edition Number 1

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The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works

Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the Christian notion of the 'flesh' - a transformation that would define the Western experience of sexuality.

Essentially completed at Foucault's death, the manuscript of this volume was locked away in a Paris bank vault for nearly thirty years. Now for the first time, the work is available to English-language readers as the author originally conceived it.

About the Author

Michel Foucalt (1926-84) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France.

Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
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The most innovative and influential French thinker of the contemporary era
Sudhir Hazareesingh * Guardian *

Nearly 35 years after his death, Foucault remains a vital reference point, and his History of Sexuality remains required reading ... The appearance of the fourth volume is itself the most significant event in the world of Foucault scholarship in 20 years ... Essential
* Los Angeles Review of Books *

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