Sexuality : the 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures

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Sexuality : the 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures

Michel Foucault ; edited by Claude-Olivier Doron ; general editor, François Ewald ; English series editor, Bernard E. Harcourt ; translated by Graham Burchell ; foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt

（Foucault's early lectures and manuscripts）

Columbia University Press, c2021

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La sexualité : cours donné à l'université de Clermont-Ferrand (1964) ; suivi de, Le discours de la sexualité : cours donné à l'université de Vincennes (1969)

Sexuality : the 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes lectures

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First published in French by Seuil/Gallimard, c2018

Translation of: La sexualité : cours donné à l'université de Clermont-Ferrand (1964) ; suivi de, Le discours de la sexualité : cours donné à l'université de Vincennes (1969)

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Summary: "Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality-the first volume of which was published in 1976-exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault's interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault's thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault's lectures on sexuality for the first time in English. In the first series, held at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1964, Foucault asks how sexuality comes to be constituted as a scientific body of knowledge within Western culture and why it derived from the analysis of "perversions"-morbidity, homosexuality, fetishism. The subsequent course, held at the experimental university at Vincennes in 1969, shows how Foucault's theories were reoriented by the events of May 1968; he refocuses on the regulatory nature of the discourse of sexuality ..."

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Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality-the first volume of which was published in 1976-exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault's interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault's thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault's lectures on sexuality for the first time in English. In the first series, held at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1964, Foucault asks how sexuality comes to be constituted as a scientific body of knowledge within Western culture and why it derived from the analysis of "perversions"-morbidity, homosexuality, fetishism. The subsequent course, held at the experimental university at Vincennes in 1969, shows how Foucault's theories were reoriented by the events of May 1968; he refocuses on the regulatory nature of the discourse of sexuality and how it serves economic, social, and political ends. Examining creators of political and literary utopias in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Sade to Fourier to Marcuse, who attempted to integrate "natural" sexualities, including transgressive forms, into social and economic life, Foucault elaborates a double critique of the naturalization and the liberation of sexuality. Together, the lectures span a range of interests, from abnormality to heterotopias to ideology, and they offer an unprecedented glimpse into the evolution of Foucault's transformative thinking on sexuality.

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Series Foreword, by Bernard E. Harcourt Foreword to the French Edition, by Francois Ewald Rules for Editing the Texts, by Claude-Olivier Doron Translator's Note, by Graham Burchell Abbreviations Part I. Sexuality: Lectures at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1964) Lecture 1. Introduction Lecture 2. The Scientific Knowledge of Sexuality Lecture 3. Sexual Behavior Lecture 4. The Perversions Lecture 5. Infantile Sexuality Part II. The Discourse of Sexuality: Lectures at the University of Vincennes (1969) Lecture 1. The Discourse of Sexuality Lecture 2. The Transformations of the Eighteenth Century Appendix to Lecture 2 Lecture 3. The Discourse of Sexuality (3) Appendix to Lecture 3 Lecture 4. Legal Forms of Marriage Up to the Civil Code Lecture 5. Epistemologization of Sexuality Lecture 6. The Biology of Sexuality Lecture 7. Sexual Utopia Appendix to Lecture 7 Appendix. Extract from Green Notebook no. 8, September 1969 Course Context, by Claude-Olivier Doron Sexuality: Course at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1964) The Discourse of Sexuality: Course at the University of Vincennes (1969) Detailed Contents Index of Notions Index of Names

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