Rethinking Sexuality : : Foucault and Classical Antiquity / / ed. by Charles Platter, Paul Allen Miller, David H.J. Larmour.

In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION SITUATING THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
  • 1 TAKING THE SEX OUT OF SEXUALITY: FOUCAULT'S FAILED HISTORY
  • 2 INCIPIT PHILOSOPHIA
  • 3 THE SUBJECT IN ANTIQUITY AFTER FOUCAULT
  • 4 THIS MYTH WHICH IS NOT ONE: CONSTRUCTION OF DISCOURSE IN PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM
  • 5 PANDORA UNBOUND: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF FOUCAULT'S HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
  • 6 FOUCAULT'S HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: A USEFUL THEORY FOR WOMEN?
  • 7 CATULLAN CONSCIOUSNESS, THE "CARE OF THE SELF/5 AND THE FORCE OF THE NEGATIVE IN HISTORY
  • 8 REVERSALS OF PLATONIC LOVE IN PETRONIUS' SATYRICON
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX