{"product_id":"libro-historia-de-la-sexualidad-4","title":"Historia de la sexualidad 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnpublished for almost thirty-five years, Confessions of the Flesh is the last and long-awaited volume of The History of Sexuality, and also the one that articulates the entire Foucaultian project. Between the Greek “pleasures” and modern “sexuality” (analyzed in the first three books of the series), the “flesh” of Christians bursts forth, that is, the body traversed by a desire that the will can never fully control. How to monitor that desire, how to make each individual a subject who governs, problematizes, and interprets himself is the obsession that emerged with Christianity and that still haunts us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does this book show us? The history of how we desire and how we talk about our desires, of how we came to be what we are. The way we live the sexual bond today and its inscription in an institution – marriage, the patriarchal regime – were configured in the first centuries of Christianity. In a journey from Clement of Alexandria to Saint Augustine, Foucault describes the patterns that regulate sexual behavior and that, by pointing out the right path and the one that leads to fall, guide and shape subjectivity. Thus, virginity, continence, monogamy, fidelity, and sex for procreation are valued. And homosexual relations, adultery, prostitution, and the pleasures of the body are condemned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut what really marks the Christian experience and shapes part of ours is not the morality of what is permitted and forbidden. It is what is encoded in the very phrase \"confessions of the flesh\": in the West – through penance, confession, and spiritual direction – men and women were destined to scrutinize themselves and pour their desire into words, to tell themselves and tell others their innermost truth. They thus became, by virtue of a pastoral power that later spread throughout modern society, subjects of desire and at the same time animals of confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this decisive book, Foucault does what would seem impossible: a history of desire, of that part of our experience that we consider evident and natural even though it is far from being so. Confessions of the Flesh, the missing piece, is one of the great chapters in the ethical-political history of ourselves and our present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnpublished for almost thirty-five years, Confessions of the Flesh is the last and long-awaited volume of The History of Sexuality, and also the one that articulates the entire Foucaultian project. Between the Greek “pleasures” and modern “sexuality” (analyzed in the first three books of the series), the “flesh” of Christians bursts forth, that is, the body traversed by a desire that the will can never fully control. How to monitor that desire, how to make each individual a subject who governs, problematizes, and interprets himself is the obsession that emerged with Christianity and that still haunts us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does this book show us? The history of how we desire and how we talk about our desires, of how we came to be what we are. 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It is what is encoded in the very phrase \"confessions of the flesh\": in the West – through penance, confession, and spiritual direction – men and women were destined to scrutinize themselves and pour their desire into words, to tell themselves and tell others their innermost truth. They thus became, by virtue of a pastoral power that later spread throughout modern society, subjects of desire and at the same time animals of confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this decisive book, Foucault does what would seem impossible: a history of desire, of that part of our experience that we consider evident and natural even though it is far from being so. 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