By Michel Foucault
During this sequel to The background of Sexuality, quantity I: An advent, the brilliantly unique French philosopher who died in 1984 supplies an research of ways the traditional Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The makes use of of delight Foucault analyzes an impossible to resist array of old Greek texts on eroticism as he attempts to respond to uncomplicated questions: How within the West did sexual adventure turn into an ethical factor? And why have been different appetites of the physique, similar to starvation, and collective matters, akin to civic responsibility, now not subjected to the numberless principles and rules and judgments that experience outlined, if no longer limited, sexual habit?
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I, ch. ” I will not stay to stress, though I must mention, that even the classical theory is not as wrong as Marx pretended it was. ” Moreover, there was another method that was akin to it though not identical with Many a factory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was just a shed that a man was able to put up by the work of his hands, and required only the simplest equipment to work it. In such cases the manual work of the prospective capitalist plus a quite small fund of savings was all that was needed— and brains, of course.
Reasoning on the lines of the labor theory of value is hence reasoning on a very special case without practical importance, though something might be said for it if it be interpreted in the sense of a rough approximation to the historical tendencies of relative values. The theory which replaced it—in its earliest and now outmoded form, known as the theory of marginal utility—may claim superiority on many counts but the real argument for it is that it is much more general and applies equally well, on the one hand, to the cases of monopoly and imperfect competition and, on the other hand, to the presence of other factors and of labor of many different kinds and qualities.
13 10 Many socialist writers besides Marx have displayed that uncritical confidence in the explanatory value of the element of force and of the control over the physical means with which to exert force. Ferdinand Lassalle, for instance, has little beyond cannons and bayonets to offer by way of explanation of governmental authority. It is a source of wonder to me that so many people should be blind to the weakness of such a sociology and to the fact that it would obviously be much truer to say that power leads to control over cannons (and men willing to use them) than that control over cannons generates power.