Foucault's Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory

Foucault Studies 14:7-19 (2012)
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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

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