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The History of Sexuality Book 3: Self-Care

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"The Care of the Self" was Michel Foucault's final publication during his lifetime and, in a sense, his philosophical testament. The subject of his research is the genealogy of the "man of desire," or the moral subject who, at a certain stage of his development, confronted the problem of sexual behavior. Analyzing a number of Greek and Latin sources from the first two centuries AD (the works of Artemidorus, Galen, Pseudo-Lucian, and others), Foucault concludes that it is possible to conceive of morality independently of the Judeo-Christian concept of sin, in which desire is inherently guilty and subject to condemnation. Ancient physicians and moralists developed a different version of ethics, essentially individualistic and linking virtue to a "style of existence," an "art of living," or a "culture of the self," the core of which consists not of prohibitions but of positive values. Another important motif of the third volume of The History of Sexuality is the sketch of the connection between this ancient ethical tradition and Christian morality, which has absorbed and radically reinterpreted some of its elements.
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