File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/f_Mar1.96, message 32


Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:02:45 -0600
From: Andrew Herman <ah7301r-AT-ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Foucault and ethnography


Samuel Lawrence Binkley wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 10, 1996 5:53:39 PM  at spiderwoman wrote:
> 
> >Have you come across "SAINT FOUCAULT:  Towards a Gay Hagiography" by David
> 
> >M. Halperin (1995) Oxford University Press?
> >
> >
> interesting.  what on earth is a Hagiography?
Sam-

A hagiography is a biography that is idealized treatment of the 
subjec that is almost mythical. It derives from the Greek, "Hagios", 
or sacred or holy.  The LIVES OF THE SAINTS is a classic (though not 
classical) example of a hagiography.

Andrew Herman

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