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Apr 14, 1990 | ISBN 9780679724698 Buy
Apr 18, 2012 | ISBN 9780307819284 Buy
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Apr 14, 1990 | ISBN 9780679724698
Apr 18, 2012 | ISBN 9780307819284
Michel Foucult 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT, one of the leading philosophical thinkers of the 20th century, was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Français in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie… More about Michel Foucault
"The Care of the Self shares with the writings on which it draws the characteristic of being carefully constructed, exquisitely reasoned and internally cogent." — The New York Times Book Review"Foucault is a thinker from whose writing one can infer lessons for our modern lives and dilemmas."– Boston Globe
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