The afirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the grandiloquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, sub vert the law that governs it, and change its future. Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century Michel foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is. “the history of sexuality” by michel foucault Interview first published in power/knowledge Foucault’s interrogation of the “repressive hypothesis,” the notion that western societies have systematically suppressed sexuality since t.
Michel foucault's 'the history of sexuality' pioneered queer theory In it he builds an argument grounded in a historical analysis of the word sexuality against the common thesis that sexuality always has been repressed in western society.
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