Virginity as a normative construction in the Christian experience of flesh according to Michel Foucault
In this text I seek to analyse the concept of virginity as a normative construction in the experience of Christian flesh according to the thought of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. To achieve this end, I first tackle the question of aphrodisia in Classical Greece along with the configuration...
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Escuela de Filosofía. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Sumario: | In this text I seek to analyse the concept of virginity as a normative construction in the experience of Christian flesh according to the thought of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. To achieve this end, I first tackle the question of aphrodisia in Classical Greece along with the configuration of an aesthetics of existence. Subsequently, I highlight the specific place occupied by pagan abstention practiced by Greek philosophers, which partly laid the foundations for the virginity arts as a means of access to Christian salvation. Finally, I point out —following Foucault— the transition from the experience of sexuality in Greece to Christianity, where the idea of original sin had a decisive influence on the experience of the Christian flesh, since it advanced the development of a constant exercise of asceticism upon the self in search of the decipherment of their own desires. |
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