The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 The Will to Knowledge

French master of thought—Michel Foucault’s blockbuster classic work

The first Taiwanese traditional Chinese version to be translated into French

Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality" was originally published in three volumes ("The Will to Knowledge", "The Use of Pleasure", "The Care of the Self"), and was later supplemented ("Confessions of the Flesh"), making a total of four volumes. roll. They extend the research started by the previous works "The Archeology of Knowledge" and "Surveillance and Punishment". Foucault focused his analysis on the combination of phenomena that we designate by sex and sexualité. The main axis of this huge project is not to rebel against sexual "repression" in order to liberate it, but to show how sexual life activates a systematic will to know everything related to sex, and it also systematically Transformed into a "science of sex", this science subsequently opened the way to the management of sex-related life in society, and the latter has an increasing impact on our existence.

Foucault conducted archaeological research on the discourse on sex (including erotic literature, the practice of confession, medicine, anthropology, psychoanalysis, political theory, law, etc.), and this discourse began in the 17th century and extended especially to the 19th century. century, and our recent "sexual liberation" attitude still inherits it. Both attitudes, censorship and liberation, end up meeting the same type of presupposition: sex is the cause of all phenomena in our lives, just as it governs the entirety of social existence.