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"Foucault, the worm having turned, needs defenders these days, and Halperin fills the position well, arguing that Foucault provides the radical gay movement with both the philosophical underpinnings and political means with which to resist suppression by mainstream culture."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Saint Foucault is not only the most stimulating analysis to date of 'the Foucault effect': it is a major contribution in its own right to the political effect of Foucault's work. It is required reading for everyone interested in Foucault's thought, in philosophical thought and contemporary politics, as well as everyone interested in Queer Theory and in the ongoing controversies and struggles of the gay movement."--Didier Eribon, author of Michel Foucault and Michel Foucault et ses contemporains
"Without even setting out to do so, David Halperin has provided the most lucid explication of the later work of Foucault that I've read. As if this were not rebuke enough to those who have got it all wrong, Halperin goes on to demolish, point by point, those liberal critics and biographers who would make of Foucault that object of their homophobic knowingness. For all of that, the book's real utility resides in something more: its extraordinarily able demonstration of the ways that Foucault's strategies of resistance are enacted in queer political and cultural practices."--Douglas Crimp, author of On the Museum's Ruins and co-author of AIDS Demo Graphics
"Bracingly clear-headed and endlessly smart, David Halperin's new book commands attention. Saint Foucault represents a major contribution to the philosophy of sexuality and a magisterial introduction to one of the twentiethcentury's most important thinkers. Unafraid to take real intellectual risks, Halperin delivers Foucault at last from the pedants and the purists, the doubters and the debunkers. A sage, searching, and sensible book."--Diana Fuss, Department of English, Princeton University and author of Identification Papers
"For those concerned with the thought of Foucault and the politics of gayness, an absolutely necessary book."--Kirkus Reviews
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Saint Foucault is not only the most stimulating analysis to date of 'the Foucault effect': it is a major contribution in its own right to the political effect of Foucault's work. It is required reading for everyone interested in Foucault's thought, in philosophical thought and contemporary politics, as well as everyone interested in Queer Theory and in the ongoing controversies and struggles of the gay movement."--Didier Eribon, author of Michel Foucault and Michel Foucault et ses contemporains
"Without even setting out to do so, David Halperin has provided the most lucid explication of the later work of Foucault that I've read. As if this were not rebuke enough to those who have got it all wrong, Halperin goes on to demolish, point by point, those liberal critics and biographers who would make of Foucault that object of their homophobic knowingness. For all of that, the book's real utility resides in something more: its extraordinarily able demonstration of the ways that Foucault's strategies of resistance are enacted in queer political and cultural practices."--Douglas Crimp, author of On the Museum's Ruins and co-author of AIDS Demo Graphics
"Bracingly clear-headed and endlessly smart, David Halperin's new book commands attention. Saint Foucault represents a major contribution to the philosophy of sexuality and a magisterial introduction to one of the twentiethcentury's most important thinkers. Unafraid to take real intellectual risks, Halperin delivers Foucault at last from the pedants and the purists, the doubters and the debunkers. A sage, searching, and sensible book."--Diana Fuss, Department of English, Princeton University and author of Identification Papers
"For those concerned with the thought of Foucault and the politics of gayness, an absolutely necessary book."--Kirkus Reviews
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Times Higher Education Supplement
"a provocative read ... Halperin's book is highly engaging."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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IN A RECENT book devoted to the commendable task of promoting and defending what, in its title, are called Gay Ideas, the philosopher Richard Mohr singles out for extended criticism one idea in particular that, despite its sometime popularity among lesbian and gay historians and cultural theorists, evidently does not qualify, in his eyes, as properly "gay": namely, the idea that sexuality is socially constructed. Read the first page
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IN A RECENT book devoted to the commendable task of promoting and defending what, in its title, are called Gay Ideas, the philosopher Richard Mohr singles out for extended criticism one idea in particular that, despite its sometime popularity among lesbian and gay historians and cultural theorists, evidently does not qualify, in his eyes, as properly "gay": namely, the idea that sexuality is socially constructed. Read the first page
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