Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryMichel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new strands of Foucauldian thought. She then revisits the theorist's ethical work in light of these discoveries, divining an ethics of eros that sees sexuality as a lived experience we are repeatedly called on to remember. Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
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In History of Madness , the ship of fools becomes a figure for a circular movement of thinking as it negotiates the possibility of its own madness : thinking's own impossibility . The paradoxical possibility of thinking's impossibility ...
In History of Madness , the ship of fools becomes a figure for a circular movement of thinking as it negotiates the possibility of its own madness : thinking's own impossibility . The paradoxical possibility of thinking's impossibility ...
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Cartesian certainty , reason's goal , arrests the movement of thinking toward its limit ; that movement is the freedom of thinking Deleuze uncovers in the Foucauldian image of the ship of fools as an " easily errant existence ” ( M 9 ...
Cartesian certainty , reason's goal , arrests the movement of thinking toward its limit ; that movement is the freedom of thinking Deleuze uncovers in the Foucauldian image of the ship of fools as an " easily errant existence ” ( M 9 ...
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Perhaps this is what Foucault means in the 1961 preface when he describes Madness as tracing the “ rudimentary movements of an experience ” ( M xxxii ) . Like the Catherine wheel , the experience of madness is both the wheel of torture ...
Perhaps this is what Foucault means in the 1961 preface when he describes Madness as tracing the “ rudimentary movements of an experience ” ( M xxxii ) . Like the Catherine wheel , the experience of madness is both the wheel of torture ...
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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Gender and Culture Series New Directions in Critical Theory |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2010 |
| Original from | Háskólinn í Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 sept. 2011 |
| ISBN | 0231520514, 9780231520515 |
| Length | 344 síður |
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