title: The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
author:  Michel Foucault 
description: "Required reading for those who cling to stereotyped ideas about our difference from the Greeks in terms of pagan license versus Christian austerity or their hedonism versus our anxiety."<br /><br />-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
zlib_text: The Use of Pleasure 
  
  Books by Michel Foucault 
  Madness and Civilization: A History oflnsanity in the Age of Reason 
  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences 
  The Archaeology of Knowledge (and The Discourse on Language) 
  The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 
  I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my 
  brother. ... A Case of Parricide in the Nineteenth Century 
  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 
  The History of Sexuality, Volumes I, 2, and 3 
  Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth­
  Century French Hermaphrodite 
  Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 
  
  The Use of Pleasure 
  Volume 2 of The History 
  of Sexuality 
  Michel Foucault 
  Translated from the French 
  by Robert Hurley 
  Vintage Books 
  . A Division of Random House, Inc. 
  New York 
  
  VINTAGE BOOKS EDlTlON, MARCH 1990 
  Translation copyright © 1985 by Random House, Inc. 
  All rights reserved under Intern