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When Jean Baudrillard published his infamous pamphlet Forget Foucault in March 1977, "Foucault's intellectual power," as Baudrillard recalled ten years later, "was enormous." Read the first page
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An Excellent Demand for Historicism
9 Nov 2003
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Next to the devastatingly landmark work of George Chauncey at the University of Chicago and the recently race-conscious examinations of John D'Emilio at the University of IL at Chicago, Professor Halperin's books--and this sometimes incisively polemical yet well-substantiated new methodological contribition--stand as the most rigorous historical inquiries into the history of gay male sexuality today.
The previous negative review shows just how contentious the notion of "doing" "homosexual" history is. However, Halperin's innovations and arguments demand attention: he argues for archival excavations of sexualities (plural) and he does not take for granted the fact that one vision of "homosexuals" was the same in all world contexts.
Today, current and future generations would do well to fuse historical and anthropological methods--or a greater attention to cultural development and entanglements both synchronically and diachronically--than only to focus upon history in terms of monological, cause-effect-bound arguments. But Halperin's approach, essentially, works toward this interdisciplinarity.
Without a doubt, this book is excellent.
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A Challenging Proposal
11 Oct 2005
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There seems to be some confusion regarding who David Halperin is and what he has written. Indeed, some seem unaware that he has written other books, at all. Halperin's Ph.D. is in Classics, as in all things ancient Greek and Roman, not English or Queer Theory. He has been a Classics professor in a Department of Classics. I once had a Classics professor who had been his advisee as either an undergraduate or graduate student, I don't recall which. He gravitated to Queer Theory only sometime thereafter. He has written a book largely about the history of male-male sex in antiquity, _One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays in Greek Love_, which is both well-known and standard reading in the field, in which he largely follows Kenneth Dover. As far as I know, and I am surmising from what I have read, he now teaches in an English department only because: (a) he has become somewhat disenchanted with sexual-identity politics in Classics departments, (b) he is now much more interested in Queer Theory, though he continues to address antiquity in the occasionally plublished essay, some of which have also become standard in the field, (c) many Queer Theorists have gravitated to English departments, and, (d) as a Classics Ph.D., he is well qualified to teach ancient literature.
Though I choose not to adopt Halperin's suggestions in this book in their entirety, I do see a very great deal worth either adopting or rigorously considering in this book. I particularly enjoy his treatment of the controversies and shady dealings surrounding Bernadette Brooten and Amy Richlin.
Though I choose not to adopt Halperin's suggestions in this book in their entirety, I do see a very great deal worth either adopting or rigorously considering in this book. I particularly enjoy his treatment of the controversies and shady dealings surrounding Bernadette Brooten and Amy Richlin.
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Another step forward for Gay/Lesbian Studies
9 Sep 2004
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Halperin in this new book has adopted Eva Sedjweck's criticism of his early work, "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality." Halperin has now abandoned his prior simplification of constructionism. Halperin's main aim in this work is to give a historical grounding to the insight of Sedjweck's "Epistemology of the Closet." It aims at providing a schema that explains the relation between the category of our modern homosexuality and those of the ancient world. For Halperin, there are four ancient categores: effeminacy, sodomy, freindship, and inversion. By foucing attention on these categories, Halperin shows the irreducibility of each one to the other by arguing that a term like homosexuality is not capable of explaining every instance of male-to-male encounters and that a transhistorical notion of homosexuality will ultimately fail to account for the varied expressions of same-sex acts before our era.
Forget the negative reviews, this is a superb work of both ingenuity and keenness.
Forget the negative reviews, this is a superb work of both ingenuity and keenness.
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