Guy Hocquenghem by Bill Marshall
Although Homosexual Desire, first published in French in 1972 and in English in 1978, has become a classic in gay male theory, no full-length study of its author, Guy Hocquenghem, has been available in English until now. From the rise of the international gay liberation movement of the late 1960s to Hocquenghem's AIDS-related death in 1988, Bill Marshall discusses the arguments and impact of Hocquenghem's theoretical and political work while situating this work in its biographical, historical, and intellectual contexts. Marshall explores all aspects of Hocquenghem's writing-journalistic, theoretical, and fictional-much of this work still untranslated. His consideration reaches beyond the aftermath of the events of May 1968 and points toward the ways in which Hocquenghem's work might invigorate contemporary debates on a range of issues in Marxist and queer theory and in gay, lesbian, and cultural studies. These include the construction of homosexuality in social discourse, the status of "identity politics," and the role of the state and civil society in the determination of each. Demonstrating Hocquenghem's importance within the framework of French leftist thought, Marshall links him to his contemporaries Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari. Tracing his connections to the intellectual traditions of Benjamin, Diderot, Fourier, Lucretius, and Gnosticism, he also illustrates Hocquenghem's place within the European intellectual tradition.Guy Hocquenghem brings an important, challenging, and overly neglected French theorist back to the main stage.
"I admire Bill Marshall's mastery of the complex politics of the early gay liberation movement in FranceMarshall also has a firm grasp of Hocquenghem's philosophical background, but his understanding of his brilliant, slippery subject does not prevent him from subjecting some of Hocquenghem's more extreme positions to a strong if subtle moral questioning."-Edmund White
Bill Marshall is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Southampton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822319238 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822319233 |
| Title | Guy Hocquenghem |
| Author | Bill Marshall |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 1997-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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