The History of Sexuality, Vol. 4: Confessions of the Flesh

The fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s famous study on the history of sexuality. In this book, the author turns to early Christian texts and analyzes how attitudes toward the flesh, sexuality, and bodily desires were formed within the Christian tradition. Foucault explores how the practices of confession and acknowledgement became key mechanisms for the formation of subjectivity and morality in Western civilization.