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Guy Hocquenghem is a key figure in the history of gay theory and activism in France. Best known in the English-speaking world for Homosexual Desire (1972), Hocquenghem's subsequent work challenges many of the orthodoxies of sexual and identity politics. His prodigious output, right up to his death in 1988, proposes, through imagination, utopianism and the aesthetic, enriching avenues beyond the impasses of modernity and identity, and here his extraordinary fictional work is central. This introduction, the first monograph on Hocquenghem in English, situates his theoretical writings in the specific French historical context of the aftermath of May 1968, as well as in the intellectual traditions to which he is close: Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari, but also, refreshingly, Benjamin, Diderot, Fourier, Lucretius and Gnosticism. Bill Marshall also points to the way the presence of Hocquenghem might invigorate our contemporary debates concerning Gay Pride, outing, Queer Theory, consumerism and the nation.
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"I admire Bill Marshall's mastery of the complex politics of the early gay liberation movement in France. Marshall 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
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Bill Marshall is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Southampton.
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- PublisherPluto Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0745310605
- ISBN 13 9780745310602
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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