The History of Sexuality: The Will to Know, Book 1
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The History of Sexuality: The Will to Know, Book 1
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The idea for the "Histories of Sexuality" project arose in Michel Foucault's (1926–1984) early 1970s as a continuation of his research into the history of medicine, which was the focus of his lecture courses at the Collège de France during those years, and as an extension of the archaeology of discursive formations toward a description of the dispositifs of knowledge and power that determined the historical mechanics of modern Europe. Initially conceived as a multi-volume series, this project subsequently underwent fundamental changes: its focus shifted from the formation of the modern concept of sexuality to the genealogy of subjectivity rooted in ancient and Christian thought.
The first volume of "Histories of Sexuality," "The Will to Knowledge" (1976), provides a methodological introduction to the cycle's initial problematic. Its rhetorical knot consists of two threads: a critique of the “repressive hypothesis,” which understands sexuality as an object of suppression and silence, and a counterposition to this hypothesis of a single line of formation of the dispositif of sexuality, aimed at the mutual increase of knowledge and power: from Christian confessional practices through the medicalization of “deviations” and “perversions” to psychoanalysis and modern “concern for sex.”
The first volume of "Histories of Sexuality," "The Will to Knowledge" (1976), provides a methodological introduction to the cycle's initial problematic. Its rhetorical knot consists of two threads: a critique of the “repressive hypothesis,” which understands sexuality as an object of suppression and silence, and a counterposition to this hypothesis of a single line of formation of the dispositif of sexuality, aimed at the mutual increase of knowledge and power: from Christian confessional practices through the medicalization of “deviations” and “perversions” to psychoanalysis and modern “concern for sex.”
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