A review by rvandenboomgaard
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault

5.0

Foucault seems to have, at some junction far before this fourth volume in the series, realised that in order to lay bare the structure of the conception of human sexuality, you first need a solid conception of human selfhood, before even being able to begin considering the structure of the human conception of selfhood. So, in my reading, ‘The History of Sexuality’ is not so much about sexuality itself, as it utilises sexuality in order to address selfhood. And this, obviously, is an infinitely more valuable project than focussing ‘only’ on sexuality.

And to think this was not even supposed to be the last instalment.