Returning to Reims (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584351233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is also the author of Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, as well as numerous other books of critical theory.. Didier Eribon, Professor of Sociology at the University of Amiens, is well known for his groundbreaking biography, Michel Foucault, first published in 1989
"Class vs. Sexuality" according to david bergman. Didier Eribon is a distinguished French journalist and scholar, whose origins are in the working class. He argues in this book that he faced much more difficulty crossing class boundaries than he did living as a gay man. His account of the difficulties he had making his way through school is convincing and moving. Yet it is not clear whether the resistance came more from the upper classes not wanting someone from the working class or the resistance came from the gravitation pull of his working class origins. Perhaps it is impossible to say.. Terrific autobiography There are very few true autobiographies. This is one of them. It is well-written and moving. It will make you think, if it doesn't make you cry.. Five Stars Robert Just as described and fast delivery!
For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. A huge success in France since its initial publication in 2009, Returning to Reims received enthusiastic reviews in Le Monde, Libération, L'Express, Les Inrockuptibles, and elsewhere.. On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided
It is at once pleasureable and edifying to read. (Leo Bersani, author of Homos and coauthor of Intimacies)This intensely personal account of Didier Eribon's family is a fascinating and compelling readThe book is beautifully written (and as beautifully translated). Scott, Institute for Advanced Study) . (Joan W. Returning to Reims is a fascinating and courageous account of how one of France's leading writers has negotiated a complex, frequently conflicted confluence of social and psychic identities. An eminent Parisian intellectual, gay and politically progressi