The history of sexuality (The Will to Know)

Author's name: Michel Foucault Publisher: Dar Al Tanweer for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2017 Literary classification: History and Political Sciences About the book: The book "The History of Sexuality" may be the most important contribution to the history of Western morality since Friedrich Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality." David Halpern considers this book undoubtedly the most ambitious and noteworthy attempt to analyze the relationships between the production of concepts and the history of society in the field of sexuality. Jean Caspardot quotes Michel Foucault on the positions and backgrounds of power, economy, and sexual knowledge in European society, through the sequence of the historical development of sexual discourse, starting from the Victorian era, with its cold, dark, silent nights, to the modern era, with its noisy, glowing days. In this book, there is a deepening and development of psychoanalytic philosophy based on precise historical research. It is a development and deepening towards future horizons, horizons of freedom and knowledge. "If sex is repressed with all this strictness, then it is only because it cannot be reconciled with widespread and intensive operation; for in that era when systematic exploitation of labor force began, could the labor force be allowed to go on and indulge in pleasures?" "Thus, sexual life was confiscated and completely submerged under the dignity of reproductive function. Socially, as in the heart of every home, there is only one place for recognized sexual life. A place of benefit and fertility: the parents' bedroom. And anything else has no choice but to retreat and hide. Polite attitudes avoid referring to the body, and modest words work to whitewash conversations."