Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryColumbia University Press, 5. nóv. 2009 - 304 síður Michel 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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Síða xiii
... Age of Reason, that was published in 1965. At 230 pages, the book was about one-third the length of Foucault's original version. Madness and Civilization was widely distributed to an American audience that had, for the most part, never ...
... Age of Reason, that was published in 1965. At 230 pages, the book was about one-third the length of Foucault's original version. Madness and Civilization was widely distributed to an American audience that had, for the most part, never ...
Síða xiv
... reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and unreason in the Age ...
... reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and unreason in the Age ...
Síða xvi
... Age of Reason was Foucault's way of getting out from under philosophy's despotic moralizing power. This is not to ... reason. That ethical alternative to rationalist morality—something we might imagine as sexual experience released from ...
... Age of Reason was Foucault's way of getting out from under philosophy's despotic moralizing power. This is not to ... reason. That ethical alternative to rationalist morality—something we might imagine as sexual experience released from ...
Síða 26
... Enlightenment.44 By showing only the negative aspects of the Age of Reason, they argue, Foucault denies the value of the genuine freedoms and advances that came about with Enlightenment thinking. Others have rejected what they see as an ...
... Enlightenment.44 By showing only the negative aspects of the Age of Reason, they argue, Foucault denies the value of the genuine freedoms and advances that came about with Enlightenment thinking. Others have rejected what they see as an ...
Síða 32
... Age of Reason implicitly challenges a purely celebratory view of a French Revolution that was as irrational in its violence as it was despotic. More immediately for Foucault himself, the term revolution corresponds to a cultural moment ...
... Age of Reason implicitly challenges a purely celebratory view of a French Revolution that was as irrational in its violence as it was despotic. More immediately for Foucault himself, the term revolution corresponds to a cultural moment ...
Efni
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1 How We Became Queer | 44 |
2 Queer Moralities | 87 |
3 Unraveling the Queer Psyche | 127 |
4 A Queer Nephew | 194 |
5 A Political Ethic of Eros | 242 |
Notes | 281 |
Works Cited | 313 |
Index | 325 |
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