Meny
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self - Didier Eribon

Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

; Michael Lucey (Oversetter)

Published in English for the first time, Didier Eribon' s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life Les mer
Vår pris
1806,-

(Innbundet) Fri frakt!
Leveringstid: Usikker levering*
*Vi bestiller varen fra forlag i utlandet. Dersom varen finnes, sender vi den så snart vi får den til lager

Innbundet
Legg i
Innbundet
Legg i
Vår pris: 1806,-

(Innbundet) Fri frakt!
Leveringstid: Usikker levering*
*Vi bestiller varen fra forlag i utlandet. Dersom varen finnes, sender vi den så snart vi får den til lager

Published in English for the first time, Didier Eribon' s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life
FAKTA
Utgitt:
Forlag: Duke University Press
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 480
ISBN: 9780822332862
KATEGORIER:

Bla i alle kategorier

VURDERING
Gi vurdering
Les vurderinger

«“Best known in the United States for his biography of Michel Foucault, Didier Eribon is well known in France as an eloquent and influential gay critic and advocate. This stunning analysis of the continuing power of antihomosexual insult to shape gay lives shows us why. A tour de force of cultural criticism, erudition, and social engagement, Eribon’s work demonstrates the intellectual breadth and radical potential of queer critique.”—George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940»

«“Didier Eribon’s new book is a brilliant study of the ways in which gay subjectivity is at once constituted by homophobic discourse and, from within that discourse, finds the terms with which to forge a queer resistance and a queer freedom. Not only does it add an invaluable dimension to queer theory in the United States; it will be read by an even wider audience for its incisive and original analysis of the relation between culture and subjectivity.”—Leo Bersani, author of Homos, The Culture of Redemption, and Caravaggio's Secrets (with Ulysse Dutoit)»

«“With lucid and exemplary patience, Didier Eribon dissolves more than a century of transatlantic thought-blockages. The result is a deeply clarifying book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity »

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xxiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction: The Language of the Tribe 1

Part 1 A World of Insult 13

1 The Shock of Insult 15

2 The Flight to the City 18

3 Friendship as a Way of Life 24

4 Sexuality and Professions 29

5 Family and "Melancholy" 35

6 The City and Conservative Discourse 41

7 To Tell or Not to Tell 46

8 Heterosexual Interpellation 56

9 The Subjected "Soul"
64

10 Caricature and Collective Insult 70

11 Inversions 79

12 On Sodomy
88

13 Subjectivity and Private Life 97

14 Existence Precedes Essence 107

15 Unrealized Identity 113

16 Perturbations 124

17 The Individual and the Group 130

Part 2 Specters of Wilde 141

1 How "Arrogant Pederasts" Come Into Being 143

2 An Unspeakable Vice 153

3 A Nation of Artist 160

4 Philosopher and Lover 168

5 Moral Contamination 176

6 The Truth of Masks 182

7 The Greeks against the Psychiatrist 190

8 The Democracy of Comrades 197

9 Margot-a-la-boulangere and the Baronne-aux-epingles 206

10 From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform 213

11 The Will to Disturb 223

12 The "Preoccupation With Homosexuality" 231

Part 3 Michel Foucault's Heterotopias 245

1 Much More Beauty 247

2 From Night to the Light of Day 250

3 The Impulse to Escape 256

4 Homosexuality and Unreason 264

5 The Birth of Perversion 274

6 The Third Sex 281

7 Producing Subjects 289

8 Philosophy in the Closet 296

9 When Two Guys Hold Hands 303

10 Resistance and Counterdiscourse 310

11 Becoming Gay 319

12 Among Men 326

13 Making Differences 334

Addendum: Hannah Arendt and "Defamed Groups" 339

Notes 351

Works Cited 419

Index 439
Didier Eribon is a philosopher, historian, and journalist in France, where he writes frequently for the weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. In addition to his biography Michel Foucault, he is the author of books including Une morale du minoritaire: Variations sur un theme de Jean Genet and Heresies: Essais sur la theorie de la sexualite.
Michael Lucey is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (published by Duke University Press) and Gide's Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing.