The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self

The third volume of Foucaults history of sexuality. A sociologist and historian of ideas Foucaults other works include Madness and Civilization The Archaeology of Knowledge The Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish. About the Author Michel Foucalt (1926-84) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France. Foucaults work influenced disciplines as diverse as history sociology philosophy sociology and literary criticism.Robert Hurley is a leading French translator specializing in the work of French philosophers and critical theorists. His English translations of Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze and Georges Bataille are considering definitive.