ANTH 4740 - Cultural History of Sexuality: From Plato to Foucault

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
This course explores the relationship between Greek reflections on eros (in tragedy and philosophy) and modern theories of sex and sexuality grounded in these same texts (Freud and Foucault) The goal is an understanding of the modern culture of “sexuality”.