Use of Pleasure The History of Sexuality

"It is possible to accept [Foucault's] argument while doubting that [he] will manage to prove it in the proposed six volumes, much less in this first one...The trouble is that a method that worked well enough in earlier books is here imposed on a subject altogether more elusive, a subject in which every reader is a kind of expert. Having been deprived not too long ago of the mysteries of God and the soul, we are not anxious to be deprived of the mystery of sex. This is not the fault of Foucault's book. It is, instead, the result of the extraordinary mystifications that surround its subject and envelop even its most sympathetic readers."Foucault, Michel is the author of 'Use of Pleasure The History of Sexuality', published 1990 under ISBN 9780394751221 and ISBN 0394751221.