The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self

The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self

1984 • 288 pages

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My second Foucault. While he makes some interesting general ideas, most of what he writes is unsourced, unconvincing, and nonsensical. I approached this text with an appreciative eye and I still got very little out of it, at best an appreciation for the historical trend of sexual discourse Foucault identifies. Had I been more sceptical a reader I would have put the book down long before I finished it.