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 leading French intellectual and author, noted particularly for his celebrated biography of his master, Michel Foucault, published by Harvard University Press in 1991, Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss (The University of Chicago Press, 1991), and more recently Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (Duke University Press, 2004). A visiting professor of philosophy and theory at Berkeley for many years, Eribon was rewarded the prestigious Brudner Prize by Yale University in 2008. He has lectured in a great number of countries and, in the United States, at The New School, University of Chicago, Harvard University, Yale University, New York University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia.
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