Rachel: Everyone should read this to understand the current world.
United States on Jul 02, 2020
RootinTootin: Book was in excellent condition
Canada on Mar 21, 2019
Ari Kline: This guy is awesome.
Canada on Jan 23, 2016
K. J.: Rubbish!
Canada on Aug 09, 2015
Plentymore: I am delighted to have stumbled upon this set of works by Foucault, and having just completed the first of 3, I am throwing myself headlong into the next because he is so capable, as a writer, of elucidating that which I have always suspected but have never had told to me so effectively. Of course many will disagree, find fault, even hate his work, but I suspect that is mostly due to how much they despise what he reveals to the thinking mind and perhaps they do not really wish to know this much?
United States on Apr 25, 2015
Mark Wenger: This is not the best introduction to Foucault, but it is perhaps one of his most important projects, for him personally, but also for contemporary society. Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Part 1 has about as much to do with historiography or sex (as those interested in either or both of those subjects might imagine them) as in vitro fertilization has to do with intimacy, and many are the expressed frustrations about all three! I am not expressing such frustration, however – I am highlighting the fact that when in vitro fertilization is the project of choice, intimacy is not really a concern. And for Foucault, when demonstrating the totalizing function of power, neither a chronological narrative of events, places, and people normally found in a history text, nor an articulation or advocacy of the potential pleasures of various positions or deployments of body parts is a concern.
It takes a particularly confident grasp of one’s assumptions and claims to undertake a genealogy of forces as they are constituted in the evolving constructs of sexuality from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Foucault clearly was confident in his assumptions and claims, and it seems to...
United States on Apr 07, 2014
B. Marold: The History of Sexuality, Volume !: An Introduction by Michel Foucault, is this major French thinker's last work, and since so many others have given a good sense of what the book is about, I will be brief. My only demur to their opinions is that while this may be his most popular book, it is not his best, or his most influential among scholars.
It is very important to note that this is not a history of sex. It is not even a history of talking about sex. It is a history of the way in which talking about sex was structured over the last three hundred years, his primary thesis being that contrary to popular belief, the Victorian era, roughly between 1835 and 1903, was NOT a period where talk about sex was repressed. To be sure, Freud and the other psychoanalysts made major influences in how we talk about sexuality, but Freud was as much a milestone as it was a cause of the change. The book is devoted to two critical shifts in attitudes about sex. The first was from the onset of legislation about sex early in the industrial age, to the formation of sexual archetypes or "types of sexuality". The second major shift, which contributed to the first, was the simultaneous change in...
United States on Aug 14, 2011
七海光一: 要するにこういうことだ。ヴィクトリア朝期はセックスを抑圧したのではなく、セックスがあらゆるフィールドに細分化され言説化された所謂セクシュアリティの揺籃期であった。それは、女性のヒステリー症と子供の性を巡って、前者は女性の身体を医学的言説に、後者は子供の身体を教育的言説に取り込んで、プロレタリアトをブルジョア的社会秩序の規範に取り込む動きとなって現れた。これは、19世紀以降権力は統治者が一方的に被統治者に行使するものではなく、あまねく一般大衆の中に偏在して社会規範を規定する、というフーコー独特の権力理論に基づくものだ。
本書は英訳版だが、まずまず判りやすい。所々文章が長く冗長で、議論が抽象的過ぎるのは、原文を反映した結果だろう。適当なフーコー入門書に目を通し、邦訳版を読んだ上でチャレンジするとよいだろう。
Japan on Jun 01, 2004
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United States on Jun 12, 2021