Heresies: Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Publisher
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Éditions Fayard
Parution date
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2003
EAN
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9782213614236
Description
Roland Barthes once pointed out that in the act of writing, “everyone defends his or her sexuality.” In his Hérésies: Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité / Heresies: Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, famed French scholar Didier Eribon analyzes not only the literary and theoretical works that openly challenge the established sexual order, but also reveals these subtler traces of subconscious heretical sexuality alluded to by Barthes. Eribon labels this dissidence as the “sexual imprint, specifically the deviant sexual imprint,” of the author’s sexuality onto the text itself. Therefore, a complicated field of discourse arises wherein sexually heretical ideas confront, directly or indirectly, the established norms. This confrontation, Eribon argues, plays a crucial and indispensable role: heretical texts expand our freedoms and allow us to carve out a space for those lifestyles that have been previously shunned or repressed. These illuminating, crisp essays range in subject matter from Loki, Gide and the Greeks, Foucault, Nietzsche, Jouhandeau, to Lacan, Mournier, and the place of sexual heresy in psychoanalytical thought. Taken as a whole, this collection provides a fascinating journey into Eribon’s liberating critical theory.
Author
Didier Eribon : Didier Eribon is a visiting Professor of Philosophy and Theory at UCAL Berkeley and co-director of the “Sociologie des homosexualités” seminar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He has authored many books including Réflexions sur la question gay (Fayard, 1999) to be published by Duke University Press in 2004, and a biography of Michel Foucault published by Harvard University Press in 1992. He also oversaw Le Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes (Larousse, 2003), and is a regular contributor to the Nouvel Observateur.
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