Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

Didier Eribon

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

Didier Eribon
Edited by: Michèle Aina Barale , Jonathan Goldberg , Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Translated by: Michael Lucey

In the series Series Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385493

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About this book

Published in English for the first time, Didier Eribon’ s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life.

Author / Editor information

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 thème de Jean Genet and Hérésies: Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité.
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.

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Introduction: The Language of the Tribe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
part 1 A World of Insult
1 The Shock of Insult Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 The Flight to the City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3 Friendship as a Way of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
4 Sexuality and Professions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
5 Family and ‘‘Melancholy’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
6 The City and Conservative Discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
7 To Tell or Not to Tell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
8 Heterosexual Interpellation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
9 The Subjected ‘‘Soul’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
10 Caricature and Collective Insult Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
11 Inversions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
12 On Sodomy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
13 Subjectivity and Private Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
14 Existence Precedes Essence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
15 Unrealizable Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
16 Perturbations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
17 The Individual and the Group Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
part 2 Specters of Wilde
1 How ‘‘Arrogant Pederasts’’ Come into Being Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
2 An Unspeakable Vice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
3 A Nation of Artists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
4 Philosopher and Lover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
5 Moral Contamination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
6 The Truth of Masks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
7 The Greeks against the Psychiatrists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
8 The Democracy of Comrades Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
9 Margot-la-boulangère and the Baronne-aux-épingles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
10 From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
11 The Will to Disturb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
12 The ‘‘Preoccupation with Homosexuality’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
part 3 Michel Foucault’s Heterotopias
1 Much More Beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
2 From Night to the Light of Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
3 The Impulse to Escape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
4 Homosexuality and Unreason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
5 The Birth of Perversion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
6 The Third Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
7 Producing Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
8 Philosophy in the Closet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
9 When Two Guys Hold Hands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
10 Resistance and Counterdiscourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
11 Becoming Gay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
12 Among Men Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
13 Making Di√erences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
Addendum: Hannah Arendt and ‘‘Defamed Groups’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 474

eBook

Published: July 7, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385493