The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

Volume IV: Confessions of the Flesh

In this draft version of the fourth volume, published and translated after his death, Foucault traces the adoption and adaptation by early Christian societies of earlier pre-Christian ideas of pleasure. He discusses Saint Augustine of Hippo.


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