Didier Eribon

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french, wrote a book called insult and the making of the gay self Duke UP, lots of google shit in french.

any one read it, worth 23 dollars american ?

― anthony, Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't read it but I did read his biography of Foucault. It was a little on the dry side and not nearly as much fun as The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. He also wrote an incredibly snotty article about Miller's book, his critique basically being that Miller a) is American and b) didn't personally know Foucault. Admittedly, Miller's book is a bit sensationalist but a good read.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i thot millers book spread some falsehoods, and was really tabloidy ?

― anthony, Monday, 26 July 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It wasn't really tabloidy, it did have some proper analysis of Foucault's works. I don't know whether it had any serious falsehoods, but it did talk a lot about Foucault's sex life, getting into some detail about fisting, S&M etc. I think Eribon thought it fell into the "Anglo-saxon" trope that you can explain the work through the life, and more specifically the sexual life. The French consider that sort of stuff in poor taste.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

was that not where the michel spread aids on purpose line that the right likes to spread comes from ?

― anthony, Monday, 26 July 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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