Description
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/14/1990
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780679724698
ISBN10: 0679724699
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/14/1990
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780679724698
ISBN10: 0679724699
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
About the Author
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.