Introduction: Foucault's The History of Sexuality : The Fourth Volume, or, A Field Left Fallow for Others to Till

Getting off on sex research: A methodological commentary on the sexual desires of sex researchers

“…Yet, in spite of the fact that contemporary sex researchers have regularly looked to Foucault for inspiration and direction (Boyarin and Castelli, 2001; Toulalan and Fisher, 2013), the idea that a sex researcher’s sexual desires may be pertinent to the research process has largely been overlooked—or perhaps just intentionally ignored. Clearly, part of the reason for this is that many sex researchers have had their motivations and intentions impugned with assumptions of lechery and prurience (Irvine, 2003; Troiden, 1987).…”

Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore

“…the modern hermeneutics of the self," and hence its history is less a "narrative reconstruction" marked by carefully dated transformations than "the history of a discourse and culture within which a certain modern institution came into existence." 10 Foucault's History of Sexuality is, in other words, a genealogy of a modern institution that has as much import for current constructions of sexuality as institutions of the far-flung past. The second limitation, that of the gender deficit, might be addressed by noting that care as a concept has been a topic of feminist investigation, specifically by feminist philosophers of the 1980s and 1990s who drew explicit attention to care as a gendered attribute.…”

“…While these writings laid out regimens for the technology of the self in an age of increasing austerity with regard to sexual pleasure, it should be noted that they preceded by several centuries the confluence between the individualistic attitude and the governmental logic of liberalism, or the "approach to governing through freedom," 20 which for Foucault characterizes modernity and wherein effective (state) government is internalized as "the government of the self" (10). The historical gap between the (early Roman) "technology of the self" and the (early modern) "government of the self" is bridged, though, by understanding sexuality, per Boyarin and Castelli, as a "modern hermeneutics of the self" with a complex genealogical relation to subjectivity.…”

Biblical Prophecy in Recent American Theological Politics

“…See Foucault 1978Foucault , 1985Foucault , 1986. With regard to the implications of Foucault's arguments for ancient subjectivities aside from the Greek citizen, see also Boyarin 1995 andBoyarin andCastelli 2001. 7.…”