Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide

In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge (1976), Foucault weaves together the most influential theoretical account of sexuality since Freud. Mark Kelly systematically unpacks the intricacies of Foucault’s dense and sometimes confusing exposition in a straightforward way, putting it in its historical and theoretical context.