Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

by Eribon, Didier

• ISBN13: 9780822333715
• ISBN10: 0822333716
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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"

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Abbreviations	xxv
Introduction: The Language of the Tribe	1	(12)
PART I A World of Insult	13	(128)
1 The Shock of Insult	15	(3)
2 The Flight to the City	18	(6)
3 Friendship as a Way of Life	24	(5)
4 Sexuality and Professions	29	(6)
5 Family and "Melancholy"	35	(6)
6 The City and Conservative Discourse	41	(5)
7 To Tell or Not to Tell	46	(10)
8 Heterosexual Interpellation	56	(8)
9 The Subjected "Soul"	64	(6)
10 Caricature and Collective Insult	70	(9)
11 Inversions	79	(9)
12 On Sodomy	88	(9)
13 Subjectivity and Private Life	97	(10)
14 Existence Precedes Essence	107	(6)
15 Unrealizable Identity	113	(11)
16 Perturbations	124	(6)
17 The Individual and the Group	130	(11)
PART 2 Specters of Wilde	141	(104)
1 How "Arrogant Pederasts" Come into Being	143	(10)
2 An Unspeakable Vice	153	(7)
3 A Nation of Artists	160	(8)
4 Philosopher and Lover	168	(8)
5 Moral Contamination	176	(6)
6 The Truth of Masks	182	(8)
7 The Greeks against the Psychiatrists	190	(7)
8 The Democracy of Comrades	197	(9)
9 Margot-la-boulangere and the Baronne-aux-epingles	206	(7)
10 From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform	213	(10)
11 The Will to Disturb	223	(8)
12 The "Preoccupation with Homosexuality"	231	(14)
PART 3 Michel Foucault's Heterotopias	245	(94)
1 Much More Beauty	247	(3)
2 From Night to the Light of Day	250	(6)
3 The Impulse to Escape	256	(8)
4 Homosexuality and Unreason	264	(10)
5 The Birth of Perversion	274	(7)
6 The Third Sex	281	(8)
7 Producing Subjects	289	(7)
8 Philosophy in the Closet	296	(7)
9 When Two Guys Hold Hands	303	(7)
10 Resistance and Counterdiscourse	310	(9)
11 Becoming Gay	319	(7)
12 Among Men	326	(8)
13 Making Differences	334	(5)
Addendum: Hannah Arendt and "Defamed Groups"	339	(12)
Notes	351	(68)
Works Cited	419	(20)
Index	439