A review by ralowe
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault

5.0

a review of sex and marriage as self-making technologies in the west prior to the cartesian cogito. i've been thinking about this a lot in relation to audre lorde, but i can't isolate a text where she elaborates her idea of individual internal coherence. foucault situates a rich greco-roman tradition in the first two centuries of the west within a system of regulation and governance. this is all vitally instructive, but it wasn't entirely what i was looking for at the moment. this is a classic book. and there's this whole part about boys that i hesitated in mentioning in my review because i'm a faggot and i'm not quite sure how redundant it seems, reading it right now. is redundant the appropriate word to describe a kind of excess? why do i have all this guilt around narcissism? i'm sure he covered it in this book, or maybe he did in the previous two, so basically this is the reason why one should not read these out of order.