Open Access’Foucault's Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’
Author(s) -
Mark D. Jordan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
foucault studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124
H-Index - 23
ISSN - 1832-5203
DOI - 10.22439/fs.v0i14.3892
Subject(s) - diction , human sexuality , queer , queer theory , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , aesthetics , poetry , gender studies , linguistics
Foucault’s History of Sexuality 1 cannot be understood without sustained attention to its ironies, which are written into every level from diction to structure. The little book does not intend to deliver a theory, queer or otherwise. It means rather to display and then to frustrate the desire for theory—especially when it comes to sexuality.