The History of Sexuality: 1

A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas

A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas

A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that 'in the beginning' sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism

Foucault is at his polemical best. He brilliantly succeeds in turning commonplaces on their heads

Michel Foucalt (1926-1984) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in postwar France. Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.