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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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68 For , if that otherness is silenced in the great confinement , that closeting is never total . If it were , we would never know that the erotic other had ever been there at all . In her emergence as ghost — as the persistent shadow ...
68 For , if that otherness is silenced in the great confinement , that closeting is never total . If it were , we would never know that the erotic other had ever been there at all . In her emergence as ghost — as the persistent shadow ...
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Never reading anything straight , Foucault thus becomes the queer nephew of an Hyppolite who , paradoxically , becomes a queer Hegelian uncle to Foucault while simultaneously maintaining his position as a straight Hegelian son .
Never reading anything straight , Foucault thus becomes the queer nephew of an Hyppolite who , paradoxically , becomes a queer Hegelian uncle to Foucault while simultaneously maintaining his position as a straight Hegelian son .
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In his reflections on the self in the Greco - Roman world , Foucault enjoins us " to become again what we never were . " Like Foucault's earlier return to unreason , this call to return to a subjectivity that never was is seemingly ...
In his reflections on the self in the Greco - Roman world , Foucault enjoins us " to become again what we never were . " Like Foucault's earlier return to unreason , this call to return to a subjectivity that never was is seemingly ...
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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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