Preface xi

Acknowledgments xxiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction: The Language of the Tribe 1

Part 1 A World of Insult 13

1 The Shock of Insult 15

2 The Flight to the City 18

3 Friendship as a Way of Life 24

4 Sexuality and Professions 29

5 Family and “Melancholy” 35

6 The City and Conservative Discourse 41

7 To Tell or Not to Tell 46

8 Heterosexual Interpellation 56

9 The Subjected “Soul”
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10 Caricature and Collective Insult 70

11 Inversions 79

12 On Sodomy
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13 Subjectivity and Private Life 97

14 Existence Precedes Essence 107

15 Unrealized Identity 113

16 Perturbations 124

17 The Individual and the Group 130

Part 2 Specters of Wilde 141

1 How “Arrogant Pederasts” Come Into Being 143

2 An Unspeakable Vice 153

3 A Nation of Artist 160

4 Philosopher and Lover 168

5 Moral Contamination 176

6 The Truth of Masks 182

7 The Greeks against the Psychiatrist 190

8 The Democracy of Comrades 197

9 Margot-a-la-boulangere and the Baronne-aux-epingles 206

10 From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform 213

11 The Will to Disturb 223

12 The “Preoccupation With Homosexuality” 231

Part 3 Michel Foucault’s Heterotopias 245

1 Much More Beauty 247

2 From Night to the Light of Day 250

3 The Impulse to Escape 256

4 Homosexuality and Unreason 264

5 The Birth of Perversion 274

6 The Third Sex 281

7 Producing Subjects 289

8 Philosophy in the Closet 296

9 When Two Guys Hold Hands 303

10 Resistance and Counterdiscourse 310

11 Becoming Gay 319

12 Among Men 326

13 Making Differences 334

Addendum: Hannah Arendt and “Defamed Groups” 339

Notes 351

Works Cited 419

Index 439