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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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As a site of pleasure but also of death , of erotic connection but also of pain , the body reactivates the tragic dimension of subjectivity , the fact of our life and our annihilation in the body's eventual death .
As a site of pleasure but also of death , of erotic connection but also of pain , the body reactivates the tragic dimension of subjectivity , the fact of our life and our annihilation in the body's eventual death .
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Madness's distinctively lyrical style , its play with the familiar tragic imagery of light and dark , or its repeated evocation of romantic figures such as Nerval and Van Gogh , all signal the book's tragic dimensions .
Madness's distinctively lyrical style , its play with the familiar tragic imagery of light and dark , or its repeated evocation of romantic figures such as Nerval and Van Gogh , all signal the book's tragic dimensions .
Síða 201
But , if Sexuality One is ironic , Madness is written in a tragic mode : its lyricism tunes it to the notes of a grief - in what Derrida famously calls its pathos — that marks the loss “ of those obscure gestures , necessarily forgotten ...
But , if Sexuality One is ironic , Madness is written in a tragic mode : its lyricism tunes it to the notes of a grief - in what Derrida famously calls its pathos — that marks the loss “ of those obscure gestures , necessarily forgotten ...
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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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