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Guillaume Dustan's Ethico-Politics of the Body

NMNoah Forster Mertz

Key Points

  • Dustan promotes individual liberty, framing it as a means for personal empowerment and social change.
  • He argues that repression underlies societal issues, advocating for self-responsibility and personal freedom.
  • This work explores Dustan's perspective on sexuality, particularly in the context of the AIDS epidemic and societal norms.
  • Critics label his views as dangerous, reflecting ongoing debates about morality and personal autonomy.

Abstract

In this MA Thesis, I lay out a synthetic overview of polemical French writer Guillaume Dustan's (1965-2005) political philosophy. He is criticized first as irresponsible and dangerous for his defense of barebacking (sex without condoms) in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, and then, after his death, as a neoliberal/anarcho-capitalist for his focus on individual liberty. My overview touches on Dustan's Freudian belief that repression is the root of all social ills, his functional ethics of self-responsibility, the revaluation of heteronormative Judeo-Christian morality towards 'virtusex,' and his social contract that minimizes repression. Dustan’s goal is for you to autonomously subjectify yourself by becoming the star of your own life.

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Noah Forster Mertz (2025) studied this question.

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