This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds. But Foucault does far more than merely recreate a vanished era when sex was not a major moral issue (only Plato, like Saint Paul, saw puritanical restraint as the way of wisdom), but makes us rethink all our own assumptions about sex.
- ISBN10 0140137343
- ISBN13 9780140137347
- Publish Date 30 July 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 304
- Language English