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FOUCAULT, SEXUALITY, ANTIQUITY Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, published for the first time in English, takes an inter- disciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault has influenced studiesofancientGreeceandRome. Foucault’sTheHistoryofSexualityhashadaprofoundandlastingimpactacrossthe humanities and social sciences. In the two volumes dedicated to pagan antiquity, Foucault provided scholars with new questions for addressing ancient Greek and Roman societies, and an originalepistemological framework for thinking about ero- ticismandabouttheprocessesbywhichindividualsareledtorecognizethemselvesas the subjects of their desires. Now, decades later, the scholars in this volume explore Foucault’s role in shaping and reorienting discussions of antiquity in the fields of philosophy,genderstudies,andpsychoanalysis,amongothers. A multidisciplinary exploration of Foucault’s work and its relationship to our understanding of ancient Greco-Roman societies, Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity will be of interest to students and scholars in classical studies, philosophy, gender studies, andancienthistory. Sandra Boehringer is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. She is the author of Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Routledge, 2021) and has edited, with Laurie Laufer, Après Les Aveux de la chair:GénéalogiedusujetchezMichelFoucault(Epel,2020). Daniele Lorenzini is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of War- wick, UK, where he co-chairs the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy.Heistheauthor,mostrecently,ofTheForceofTruth:Critique,Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault (Chicago, forthcoming), and the co-editor of The ChicagoFoucaultProject. Praise for the original French edition, Foucault, la sexualité, l’Antiquité (Éditions Kimé, 2016): “Thepresentbookwillremainahighlystimulatingworkforanyonewishingtogo beyond well-worn paths, by making use of the new epistemological framework Foucault provides for approaching the question of ancient sexuality.” Arnaud Paturet, Bryn Mawr Classical Review “Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity sets out to provide an update on Foucauldian thought regarding sexuality.… The book is a success, both at the level of the quality of the individual contributions, the clarity of their discussions, but also in the ways they complement one another.” Jan Nelis, Anabases FOUCAULT, SEXUALITY, ANTIQUITY Edited by Sandra Boehringer and Daniele Lorenzini Coverimage:YoungGanymedewithhishoopandrooster.©GettyImages| DEA/G.DAGLIORTI. Firstpublished2022 byRoutledge 4ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 605ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10158 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2022selectionandeditorialmatter,SandraBoehringerandDanieleLorenzini; individualchapters,thecontributors TherightofSandraBoehringerandDanieleLorenzinitobeidentifiedasthe authorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters, hasbeenassertedinaccordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. PublishedwiththesupportoftheCentredeRecherchesPsychanalyse,Médecine etSociété(CRPMS,UniversitéParisCité);l’AssociationpourleCentreMichel Foucault;andl’InstitutUniversitairedeFrance. OriginallypublishedinFrenchasFoucault,lasexualité,l’AntiquitébyÉditions Kimé,Paris,2016. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Acatalogrecordhasbeenrequestedforthisbook ISBN:978-1-032-01459-3(hbk) ISBN:978-1-032-01452-4(pbk) ISBN:978-1-003-17873-6(ebk) DOI:10.4324/9781003178736 TypesetinBembo byTaylor&FrancisBooks CONTENTS List of Contributors vii Acknowledgements x Translators’ Note xi PART Introduction 1 1 Problematizing Sexuality: Foucault, the Ancients, and Us 3 Sandra Boehringer and Daniele Lorenzini TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN 2 The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self: Genealogy of a Text 11 Frédéric Gros TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN PARTI Before Sexuality 21 3 To Refuse Universals: A Foucauldian History of Ancient Sexuality, History in the Present Tense 23 Sandra Boehringer TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN 4 Perversion in Antiquity? Foucault, Seneca, and Psychiatric Reasoning 48 Kirk Ormand vi Contents PARTII What Is the Subject? 65 5 “The Sexual Scene Concerns a Single Character” 67 Jean Allouch TRANSLATEDBYKIRSTENELLERBY 6 Subject of Desire and Subject of Discourse in Foucault: Sexuality and the Erotic Relations of Greek Women and Men 74 Claude Calame TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN PARTIII Questions of Desire 89 7 Ancient Sexuality and the Principle of Activity: Foucauldian Paradoxes About Pederasty 91 Olivier Renaut TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN 8 Desire as the “Historical Transcendental” of the History of Sexuality 103 Daniele Lorenzini TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN PARTIV Rethinking Bodies, Reshaping Norms 113 9 Body of Pleasure, Body of Desire: Augustine’s Theory of Marriage as Reread by Michel Foucault 115 Arianna Sforzini TRANSLATEDBYMERYLALTMAN 10 From Hermeneutics to Strategics: Gender, Sexualities, Norms, and Psychoanalysis 126 Thamy Ayouch TRANSLATEDBYKIRSTENELLERBY Index of Ancient Authors and Figures 141 Index of Modern Authors 142 CONTRIBUTORS Jean Allouch is apracticing psychoanalyst workinginParis. Beginningin 1963 he attended the seminars of Jacques Lacan (who was also his analyst). After the dis- solution of the École freudienne de Paris, he participated in the creation of the journal Littoral, and then in the founding of the École lacanienne de psychanalyse. With the book series “Les Grands classiques de l’érotologie moderne,” which he oversees for Epel, he strives to bring erudite works in the field of gay and lesbian studies to a wider audience. His bibliography includes La Psychanalyse est-elle un exercice spirituel? Réponse à Michel Foucault (2007); Lacan Love: Seminars and Other Works (2007); Contre l’éternité: Ogawa, Mallarmé, Lacan (2009); L’Amour Lacan (2009). Recently he has published L'Autresexe (2016); Pourquoi y a-t-il de l’excitation sexuelle plutôt que rien? (2017); La Scène lacanienne et son cercle magique (2017); Nou- velles remarques sur le passage à l’acte (2019); and Transmaître (2020). All these works have been translated into Spanish. Meryl Altman is retired from DePauw University in Indiana, where she taught literature and women’s/gender studies. Her publications include articles on Sappho, metaphor, 20th-century American literature, the history of sexuality, and Simone de Beauvoir, the topic of her book Beauvoir in Time (Brill, 2020). Thamy Ayouch is a psychoanalyst and professor at the Université Paris Cité. His research deals with the interactions of psychoanalysis with philosophy, political studies, gender studies, queer studies, and post-colonial and decolonial studies. He has been working on gender, sexuality, race, and class discrimination. He has published various books and articles in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. His latest book is Psychanalyse et hybridité: Genre, colonialité, subjectivations (2018). He translateditintoPortugueseandSpanish,anditwaspublishedrespectivelyinBrazil (2019) and Mexico (2020). viii ListofContributors Sandra Boehringer is Associate Professor of Greek History at the Université de Strasbourg. Her work deals with questions of gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman Antiquity. She is the author of L’Homosexualité féminine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (Les Belles Lettres, 2007), now translated into English as Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Routledge, 2021), and has written the entryfor“Female Homosexuality”intheOxfordClassicalDictionary(online)aswell as numerous studies on the new Sappho fragments. Her essay, “Not a Freak but a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis in Martial, Epigram VII, 67” (Archimède: Archéologie et histoire ancienne [En ligne] 5, 2018) was awarded the Paul Rehak Prize from the Lambda Classical Caucus of the Society for Classical Studies. Recently she has edited, along with Laurie Laufer, the collection Après Les Aveux de la chair: Généalogie du sujet chez Michel Foucault (Epel, 2020). Claude Calame is Directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has taught at the University of Urbino, at Yale, and at the University of Lausanne. His work focuses particularly on a historical and critical anthropology of Greek poetic forms, including the forms of erotic poetry sung by men or by women. His recent works include L’Éros dans la Grèce antique (Belin, 2009, 3rd edition; English translation, Princeton University Press, 1999); Prométhée généticien (Les Belles Lettres, 2011); Mythe et histoire dans l’Antiquité grecque (Les Belles Lettres, 2011, 2nd edition; English translation, Princeton University Press, 2003); Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque? (Gallimard, 2015, 2nd edition; English translation, Cambridge University Press, 2009); and La tragédie chorale: Poésie grecque et rituel musical (Les Belles Lettres, 2017; English translation, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). KirstenEllerbyhasbeennavigating betweenFrenchandEnglishsincechildhood. Fiveyearsago,afterawonderfulexperiencetranslatingFrançoisAnsermet’sTheArt of Making Children (2017), she decided to take the plunge and make translation her primary professional activity. Currently she is doing an MA in Translation with The Open University, UK. Frédéric Gros is Professor of Political Humanities at Sciences-Po, Paris. His most noteworthy works include États de violence: Essai sur la fin de la guerre (Gallimard, 2006) and Le Principe sécurité (Gallimard, 2012). He is the editor of the last four volumesofMichelFoucault’slectures attheCollège deFrance, and alsoeditedthe collectionFoucault:Lecourage delavérité(PUF,2012) aswellastheBibliothèquede la Pléiade edition of Foucault’s collected works (Gallimard, 2015) and Les Aveux de la chair (Gallimard, 2018). Since Désobéir, translated into English as Disobey: A Phi- losophy of Resistance (Reverso, 2020), he has published La Honte est un sentiment révolutionnaire (Albin Michel, 2021). Daniele Lorenzini is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he co-chairs the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European ListofContributors ix Philosophy. He specializes in 20th-century French philosophy, moral and political philosophy, and ordinary language philosophy. He is the author, most recently, of The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault (Uni- versity of Chicago Press, forthcoming). He is the co-editor of several volumes collecting previously unpublished lectures and texts by Foucault, including Mad- ness, Language, Literature (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), Speaking the Truth about Oneself (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and Discourse and Truth (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He is also the co-editor of two book series, Philosophie du présent (Vrin) and The Chicago Foucault Project (University of Chicago Press), as well as of the peer-reviewed journal Foucault Studies. KirkOrmandistheNathanGreenbergProfessorofClassicsatOberlinCollege.He haspublishedontherepresentationofwomeninancientGreeceandtheconstruction ofsexual identitiesinancient Greeceand Rome.His publicationsinclude Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2nd edition, University of Texas Press, 2018),andTheHesiodicCatalogueofWomenandArchaicGreece(CambridgeUniversity Press, 2014). He is the co-editor, with Ruby Blondell, of Ancient Sex: New Essays (Ohio State University Press, 2015). He also contributed to the Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, edited by Thomas Hubbard (Blackwell 2013), with a chapter titled“Foucault’sHistoryofSexualityandtheDisciplineofClassics.”Hisrecentessay, “AtalantaandSappho:WomeninandoutofTime,”inNarrativesofTimeandGender inAntiquity,editedbyEstherEidenowandLisaMaurizio(RoutledgePress,2020),was awarded the Paul Rehak Prize from the Lambda Classical Caucus of the Society for ClassicalStudies. Olivier Renaut is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Paris Nanterre University and member of the Institut de Recherches Philosophiques (EA 373). His research focuses onpsychology,ethics,andpoliticsinPlatoandAristotle, through theprism of passions. His work includes Platon: La médiation des émotions (Vrin, 2014) on Plato, and La Rhétorique des passions (Classiques Garnier, 2021) on Aristotle. He is the co-editor, with Luc Brisson, of Érotique et politique chez Plato: Erôs, genre et sexualité dans la cité platonicienne (Academia Verlag, 2017), and, with Laura Can- diotto, of Emotions in Plato (Brill, 2020). Arianna Sforzini is a postdoctoral researcher in aesthetics at the University of FribourgandteachesphilosophyatSciences-PoParis.ShewroteaPhDdissertation on the role of theatre in the philosophy of Michel Foucault (2015, Université Paris-Est Créteil / Università degli Studi di Padova), and she is the author of numerous articles and essays on Foucault’s thought and contemporary philosophy, particularly in its relation to the arts and the performances of the body. As a guest researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, she has worked on a new inventory of the Michel Foucault archives (2016–2019). She is the author of Les Scènes de la vérité: Michel Foucault et le théâtre (Le Bord de l’eau, 2017) and Michel Foucault: Une pensée du corps (Presses Universitaires de France, 2014).

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