On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet. -- from "Returning to Reims"
After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscove...
On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet. -- from "Returning to Reims"
After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind thirty years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life. His story weaves together a set of remarkable reflections on the class system in France, on the role of the educational system in class identity, on the way both class and sexual identities are formed, and on the recent history of French politics, including the shifting voting patterns of the working classes -- reflected by Eribon's own family, which changed its allegiance from the Communist Party to the National Front.
"Returning to Reims" is a remarkable book of sociological inquiry and critical theory, of interest to anyone concerned with the direction of leftist politics in the contemporary world, and to anyone who has ever experienced how sexual identity can clash with other parts of one's identity. A huge success in France since its initial publication in 2009, "Returning to Reims" received enthusiastic reviews in "Le Monde, Liberation, L'Express, Les Inrockuptibles," and elsewhere.
作者简介
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Didier Eribon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Amiens. His books include the bestselling Returning to Reims, the biography Michael Foucault, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, and numerous other books of critical theory.
人人生而自带诸多标签,生物学、地理位置和文化都是这些标签的贡献者。当人存在于社会中,这些标签就变成了identity。社会的运转机制会鼓励某些标签,而倾向于消除另外一些标签的存在。作者却试图抵抗社会的运转机制,自行决定他要保留哪些标签,摒弃哪些标签,创造哪些先天不存在的标签。他的identity从工人阶级,变成了知识分子和同性恋。逃离故乡和原生家庭,是为了摆脱某些标签。重新回归,是接纳自己的全部。...人人生而自带诸多标签,生物学、地理位置和文化都是这些标签的贡献者。当人存在于社会中,这些标签就变成了identity。社会的运转机制会鼓励某些标签,而倾向于消除另外一些标签的存在。作者却试图抵抗社会的运转机制,自行决定他要保留哪些标签,摒弃哪些标签,创造哪些先天不存在的标签。他的identity从工人阶级,变成了知识分子和同性恋。逃离故乡和原生家庭,是为了摆脱某些标签。重新回归,是接纳自己的全部。You cannot shed part of who you are.(展开)
7 有用 Y门食客 2020-10-10 10:32:51
人人生而自带诸多标签,生物学、地理位置和文化都是这些标签的贡献者。当人存在于社会中,这些标签就变成了identity。社会的运转机制会鼓励某些标签,而倾向于消除另外一些标签的存在。作者却试图抵抗社会的运转机制,自行决定他要保留哪些标签,摒弃哪些标签,创造哪些先天不存在的标签。他的identity从工人阶级,变成了知识分子和同性恋。逃离故乡和原生家庭,是为了摆脱某些标签。重新回归,是接纳自己的全部。... 人人生而自带诸多标签,生物学、地理位置和文化都是这些标签的贡献者。当人存在于社会中,这些标签就变成了identity。社会的运转机制会鼓励某些标签,而倾向于消除另外一些标签的存在。作者却试图抵抗社会的运转机制,自行决定他要保留哪些标签,摒弃哪些标签,创造哪些先天不存在的标签。他的identity从工人阶级,变成了知识分子和同性恋。逃离故乡和原生家庭,是为了摆脱某些标签。重新回归,是接纳自己的全部。You cannot shed part of who you are. (展开)
0 有用 Achilleo 2022-11-10 18:47:32 奥地利
逃离,重塑和悦纳
0 有用 蒂姆 2023-01-31 07:10:37 加拿大
easy to come out gay but harder come out poor.
1 有用 別有用心美少女 2022-05-31 14:49:40
這才稱得上〈把自己作為方法〉 Unbelievably touchable & resonance 讀完中文又讀了英文,是我最喜愛的血淋淋式自我解剖,在閱讀的瞬間和過程中幾次獲得了痛快,有些段落我以為是自己寫的,是不是有人把我腦袋解剖開來整理好思維放到文字上 不敢迎接過去的我以及人生大部分悲慘,時常任由他人把某部份的我撕碎,看見自己皮膚在他人的暴力和語言之間被鋒利切開不敢反抗,我怪罪不完整的人... 這才稱得上〈把自己作為方法〉 Unbelievably touchable & resonance 讀完中文又讀了英文,是我最喜愛的血淋淋式自我解剖,在閱讀的瞬間和過程中幾次獲得了痛快,有些段落我以為是自己寫的,是不是有人把我腦袋解剖開來整理好思維放到文字上 不敢迎接過去的我以及人生大部分悲慘,時常任由他人把某部份的我撕碎,看見自己皮膚在他人的暴力和語言之間被鋒利切開不敢反抗,我怪罪不完整的人生,我怪罪自己跪著,我怪罪嘩眾取寵活該被傷害,在驕傲長出來的鋒利形成了我的自我折磨,我要跟自己和解,並不是我以外的人能解決的事 (展开)
0 有用 edwardyang 2020-11-23 09:09:37
自我意识可以救自己,左派右派都难以救众生。同为工人阶级后代可以大范围的感同身受。离开家乡求学生活的经历,也是建立新人格、并同旧人格艰难共存的过程。出国生活之后,内外在的推力让新人格统一自我,旧人格渐渐退去。关于未来,则一切皆未可知。