
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol.1" (Part 1/2)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Irony of Sexual Repression
Foucault gives us essentially three thesis or three concerns the first is goes as follows is sexual repression truly an established historical fact. Number two do the workings of power and in particular those mechanisms that are brought into planes society such as ours really belong primarily to the category of repression? And then number three did the critical discourse that addresses itself to repression come to act as a roadblock to a power mechanism that had operated unchallenged up to that point or is it not in fact part of the same historical phenomenon.
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