’Foucault's Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’

Authors

  • Mark D. Jordan Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i14.3892

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Mark D. Jordan, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University

Mark D. Jordan is University Professor of the Humanities attached to the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written a number of books on Christian teachings about sex and gender. The most recent is Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality (Chicago, 2011). This essay on History of Sexuality 1 forms part of a longer manuscript on Foucault and the writing of religion, tentatively titled Convulsing Bodies.

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Published

2012-09-14

How to Cite

Jordan, M. D. (2012). ’Foucault’s Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’. Foucault Studies, (14), 7–19. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i14.3892

Issue

Number 14: September 2012: Foucault and Queer Theory

Section

Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory

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