Returning to Reims

Informationen zum Autor Didier Eribon, Professor of Sociology at the University of Amiens, is well known for his groundbreaking biography, Michel Foucault, first published in 1989. He is also the author of Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, as well as numerous other books of critical theory. Klappentext Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life. His story weaves together a set of remarkable reflections on the class system in France, on the role of the educational system in class identity, on the way both class and sexual identities are formed, and on the recent history of French politics, including the shifting voting patterns of the working classes¿reflected by Eribon¿s own family, which changed its allegiance from the Communist Party to the National Front. ¿An eminent Parisian intellectual, gay and politically progressive, from a conservative, working¿class provincial family, Didier Eribon has written a book that will be of great interest to those concerned with questions of social class, sexuality, and intellectual community. 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.¿ Leo Bersani, author of Homos and coauthor of Intimacies A memoir and a meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locked in political closets.

Product details

• Authors: Didier Eribon
• Assisted by: Michael Lucey (Translation)
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.2013
• EAN: 9781584351238
• ISBN: 978-1-58435-123-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Semiotext (E); Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents; Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents; Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology