Saint Foucault - David M. Halperin

Saint Foucault

David M. Halperin

出版时间

1996-01-01

ISBN

9780195111279

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michel Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists?

Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and others, Saint Foucault is an uncompromising and impassioned defence of the late French philosopher and historian. A sometimes scathing, sometimes moving exploration of truth and sexual politics, it shows Foucault as a galvanizing thinker who will continue to serve as a model for gay intellectuals and activists.

David M. Halperin, Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

用户评论
福柯给同性恋运动留下的遗产是多样化的。作者的解读是把“同性恋”作为一个批判性观察异性恋社会的视点,由此进入了“酷儿理论”,即边缘人的联合。不过,时至今日,在婚姻诉求等文化表达中我们反倒是会见到边缘人群主动寻求“正常化”。此外作者也强调日常文化实践中的微观抵抗,比如对福柯的自我艺术给出的例子居然是男同健身(笑)。很多问题讲到了,但总体而言也没有太惊奇之处。结尾一篇就是在炮轰米勒那本《生死爱欲》了。无论米勒本人的想法,这部传记确实鼓励了将福柯的理论化约到他的“生存美学”甚至“性癖”上,失去了政治性不说,也给了反对者借私生活做文章来贬低他的作品的口舌。
很喜欢对queer ethics的讨论,said exactly what I thought. 不过我们课上一个做queer literature的phd第一年男生说他非常不喜欢这本书,不过没展开具体说,不知道是因为我queer theory读的不够多所以我们态度不一样,还是因为我们在不同的文化语境下思考queer ethics所以态度不同。Halperin文笔真的很好,写的也带有感情,我特别喜欢里面对于sm还有拳交的讨论,关于在sm这样的预设权力关系中如何negotiate权力,如何通过pleasure来重构自我和他者的关系。当时读的时候脑子里一直是Wong Ping的热烈地亲亲爹地。不过这本书唯一让我比较疑惑的点是我很难想象如何在东亚语境下理解Halperin对福柯的解读。
比原著更鼓舞人心 可原著还在么
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