In this sequel to "The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction," the brilliantly original French thinker Michel Foucault analyzes how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout "The Use of Pleasure," Foucault examines an array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other bodily appetites, such as hunger, not subjected to the numerous rules and regulations that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?
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.
