STORIA DELLA SESSUALITA': le ultime riflessioni di Michel Foucault sulla Bio-politica

Michel Foucault’s theory of sexuality is one of his most influential contributions to philosophy and social theory. It is primarily presented in fhe History of sexualit 1 fhe ) ill to gnoPledge Pvn introduction. (1976), the first volume of his trilogy. Foucault develops a perspective that deviates from traditional narratives about the repression of sexuality and instead argues that power does not repress sex, but rather produces and regulates it in complex ways. Sexuality, once censored and removed and only made discursive through clerical confession, later becomes widely discussed in modern times. Peripheral and de viant sexualities become subjects of public discourse, placed at the center of attention. This involves a shift in the nature of power, from repressive to tolerant. This change aims at an edonization and electrification of the social body. According to Foucault, a reaction to this intrusion of power, facilitated by the mass media, can only be found by returning to an archaic morality and through the “care of the self” derived from Greek-Roman classical traditions.