A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an...

A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an...

Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Biographie, es schildert das Leben des Philosophen. Und doch: Wenn man eine Biographie Foucaults in Angriff nimmt, tut man das, weil er Bücher geschrieben hat. Und so ist Didier Eribon mit seiner Biographie über Michel Foucault, der bisher einzigen, aufgrund ihres profund recherchierten Faktenreichtums, ihrer intimsten Kenntnis von Person und Werk dieses Denkers ein faszinierendes Portrait gelungen: das der rätselvollen Gestalt Michel Foucaults und mit ihr der letzten vierzig Jahre intellektueller Geschichte nicht nur Frankreichs.