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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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tion of the ethical significance of interiority. Specifically, the Foucauldian passage
from the ship of fools to the great confinement retraces a Nietzschean
genealogical story about the production of interiority as the result of “an act of
violence” ...
tion of the ethical significance of interiority. Specifically, the Foucauldian passage
from the ship of fools to the great confinement retraces a Nietzschean
genealogical story about the production of interiority as the result of “an act of
violence” ...
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tion, props him up. In this way the patient becomes the perfect, powerless
complement to the doctor's power, a “pure object with no other resistance than
her own inertia, ready to be the hysterical woman in whom Charcot exalted the
marvelous ...
tion, props him up. In this way the patient becomes the perfect, powerless
complement to the doctor's power, a “pure object with no other resistance than
her own inertia, ready to be the hysterical woman in whom Charcot exalted the
marvelous ...
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tion are both revealed and foreclosed. Specifically, at the beginning of part 3,
Foucault stages a literary figure caught in the breach between reason and
unreason at the moment of the Enlightenment birth of the modern Western
subject.
tion are both revealed and foreclosed. Specifically, at the beginning of part 3,
Foucault stages a literary figure caught in the breach between reason and
unreason at the moment of the Enlightenment birth of the modern Western
subject.
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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: rethinking the foundations of queer theory Gender and culture New Directions in Critical Theory Series |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2010 |
| Original from | Háskólinn í Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 sept. 2011 |
| ISBN | 0231149190, 9780231149198 |
| Length | 344 síður |
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