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Episode Synopsis
The History of Sexuality was a major undertaking that Michel Foucault began, in the most obvious way, in the mid-1970s.
About Stuart Elden
"I’m a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick.
I’m the author of books on Henri Lefebvre, Martin Heidegger and the question of territory. Over the past several years, I've been writing a multivolume intellectual history of the entire career of Michel Foucault."
The History of Sexuality
One of the major contributions that Foucault makes in his career is to work on the question of sexuality. Foucault was a gay man, who struggled with the question of his own sexuality at the beginning of his life, but later became much more reconciled to it and much more public about these kinds of questions.
The History of Sexuality was a major undertaking that Foucault began, in the most obvious way, in the mid-1970s. You can see elements of this in his lectures in the 1960s, but in the mid-1970s, in his Collège de France lecture courses and in some of his visiting lectures elsewhere, he says that he’s taken on a kind of project that’s like a sequel to his History of Madness, and this is The History of Sexuality.
Key Points
• The `History of Sexuality` was a major undertaking that Foucault began in the mid-1970s.
• Foucault thinks that the Christian notion of the flesh shapes the beginning of the current era.
• We need to take into account medicine, biology, psychology and theology if we are to understand how sexuality is organised, ordered, controlled and regulated.
About Stuart Elden
"I’m a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick.
I’m the author of books on Henri Lefebvre, Martin Heidegger and the question of territory. Over the past several years, I've been writing a multivolume intellectual history of the entire career of Michel Foucault."
The History of Sexuality
One of the major contributions that Foucault makes in his career is to work on the question of sexuality. Foucault was a gay man, who struggled with the question of his own sexuality at the beginning of his life, but later became much more reconciled to it and much more public about these kinds of questions.
The History of Sexuality was a major undertaking that Foucault began, in the most obvious way, in the mid-1970s. You can see elements of this in his lectures in the 1960s, but in the mid-1970s, in his Collège de France lecture courses and in some of his visiting lectures elsewhere, he says that he’s taken on a kind of project that’s like a sequel to his History of Madness, and this is The History of Sexuality.
Key Points
• The `History of Sexuality` was a major undertaking that Foucault began in the mid-1970s.
• Foucault thinks that the Christian notion of the flesh shapes the beginning of the current era.
• We need to take into account medicine, biology, psychology and theology if we are to understand how sexuality is organised, ordered, controlled and regulated.
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