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Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer by Elizabeth Wingrove is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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In Foucault's Strange Eros, Lynne Huffer elaborates an ethics of eros that turns on reading Foucault as a poet-more specifically, as a Sapphic poet. How readers respond to her account is likely to turn on their own poetic, possibly Sapphic, sensibilities. Does the prospect of reading a book that "speaks in diffractive fragments" and so "erodes the book's coherence as a 'whole'" (41) daunt or entice? Does a passion for diacritical marks as (un)makers of meaning intrigue or disconcert? Does an epistolary exchange, on the last page of the last chapter, between a (presumably dead) reader addressed as "Michel" and a (presumably living) author designated as "LH" (181) offer insight into the ethics of eros elaborated in preceding chapters or is it just poetic play, so no need to dwell? Huffer's provocative, very smart book will provide pleasures, impasses, insights, and/or headscratchers to diverse readers, depending on their response to reading not only Foucault but also Huffer in a poetic mode. This claim might appear to offer a sorting device for prospective readers, but my intention is otherwise: to highlight the twinned positions of readers of Huffer's book and readers in the book, w
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- Author
- Elizabeth Wingrove
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences