History of sexuality vol 3

This highly commended analysis of the understanding of sexuality in modern Western society, explores the Golden Age of Rome, to disclose a refined but conclusive break from the traditional Greek version of sexual pleasure.

Foucault delves into the whole corpus of moral deliberations among renowned philosophers, thinkers and physicians of the era to reveal a cumulative mistrust of pleasure and a mounting fretfulness over sexual involvement and its consequences.

Foucault identified the philosophies of the 'care of the self' at the crux of this makeover. He describes how the self is evolved and emerged into an object of awareness and field of actions so as to correct, control, change, refine and thus find liberation.

His explicit graphic and insightful interpretation of this crucial transformation of sexual assertiveness makes our understanding of the contemporary experience of sexuality deeper.