Rethinking Sexuality
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Rethinking Sexuality

Foucault and Classical Antiquity

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Rethinking Sexuality

Foucault and Classical Antiquity

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In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together the historical knowledge, philological skills, and theoretical perspectives of a wide range of scholars, this collection enables the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence from Greece and Rome. Not only do the essays bring to light the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world, but they also demonstrate the importance of the History of Sexuality for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.


The essays include "Situating The History of Sexuality" (the editors), "Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality: Foucault's Failed History" (Joel Black), "Incipit Philosophia" (Alain Vizier), "The Subject in Antiquity after Foucault" (Page duBois), "This Myth Which Is Not One: Construction of Discourse in Plato's Symposium" (Jeffrey S. Carnes), "Foucault's History of Sexuality: A Useful Theory for Women?" (Amy Richlin), "Catullan Consciousness, the 'Care of the Self,' and the Force of the Negative in History" (Paul Allen Miller), "Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius' Satyricon" (Daniel B. McGlathery), and an essay from Dislocating Masculinity (Lin Foxhall).

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INDEX
Abbot, Frank F., 208n.21
abortion, 161, 162n.45
Achilles Tatius, 26, 207-8, 211n.29, 223n.62
Adorno, Theodor, 11
adultery, 113, 132, 156n.32, 188
aesthetics, 52-54, 60, 94, 177n.23, 196
Agathon, 112, 115n.31, 116, 119, 205, 219n.53
agora, 129-30
AIDS, 100-102
Aiskhines, 133, 151
Alcibiades, 40, 116-17, 119, 205, 209-12, 215, 217, 221-22
Alexander the Great, 72, 182n.38
Alkaios, 87
Althusser, Louis, 10, 14, 61, 73, 78n.16, 180n.31
ankhisteia, 124-26, 128, 131
Anteros, 110
anthropology, 142
Antiphon, 131
Apatouria, 127
aphrodisia, 35, 40, 48, 95, 205, 227
aphrodisiacs, 161
Apollo, 127-28
Apollodorus (in Plato), 105-6, 119
Apuleius, 206, 217, 220n.58, 223, 226
archaic Greece, 88, 92
archeology, 13, 16, 23, 44, 57n.45, 62, 65, 76, 118, 122-23, 139, 194; as description of empirical events, 194n.75
Aristides of Miletus, 220n.58
Aristodemus, 105-6, 119
Aristophanes, 111-12, 131, 133, 135, 211nn.28-29, 214n.37; in Plato, 27, 37, 104-20, 148, 217
Aristode, 27, 32, 72, 96, 125, 128-29, 133, 144, 149, 151, 157-58, 163, 168
ars erotica, 71-72, 116-17, 119
Artaud, Antonin, 64
Artemidorus, 55-56, 144, 147, 155-56
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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Situating The History of Sexuality
  8. One: Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality: Foucault’s Failed History
  9. Two: Incipit Philosophia
  10. Three: The Subject in Antiquity after Foucault
  11. Four: This Myth Which Is Not One: Construction of Discourse in Plato’s Symposium
  12. Five: Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality
  13. Six: Foucault’s History of Sexuality. A Useful Theory for Women?
  14. Seven: Catullan Consciousness, the “Care of the Self,” and the Force of the Negative in History
  15. Eight: Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius’ Satyricon
  16. Bibliography
  17. Contributors
  18. Index