by David M. Halperin (Author)
Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michael Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists?
Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and others,
Saint Foucault is an uncompromising and impassioned defence of the late French philosopher and historian. A sometimes scathing, sometimes moving exploration of truth and sexual politics, it shows Foucault as a galvanizing thinker who will continue to serve as a model for gay intellectuals and activists.
Author Biography
David M. Halperin is Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The founding editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, he is the author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, which Outweek called `the single most important contribution to the interpretation of gay history in nearly a decade.'
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.54 x 5.48 IN
Publication Date: November 12, 2002
