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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 ix
... Foucault's first major work,1 History of Madness, published in French in 1961 but only fully translated into English in 2006.2 In unpublished remarks I discovered in the archives, Foucault Preface Preface: Why We Need Madness.
... Foucault's first major work,1 History of Madness, published in French in 1961 but only fully translated into English in 2006.2 In unpublished remarks I discovered in the archives, Foucault Preface Preface: Why We Need Madness.
Síða xii
... English. Let me briefly recount that history. The first English translation of the book occurred in 1965, four years after its first appearance in French. Originally published in 1961 as Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge ...
... English. Let me briefly recount that history. The first English translation of the book occurred in 1965, four years after its first appearance in French. Originally published in 1961 as Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge ...
Síða xiii
... English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, that was published in 1965. At 230 pages, the book was about one-third the length of Foucault's original version ...
... English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, that was published in 1965. At 230 pages, the book was about one-third the length of Foucault's original version ...
Síða xviii
... English translation, where we can read both the suppressed 1961 preface and the new 1972 version side by side. To me, the emergence of the two prefaces together in 2006 mirrors the doubled voice that emerged at the end of the 1972 ...
... English translation, where we can read both the suppressed 1961 preface and the new 1972 version side by side. To me, the emergence of the two prefaces together in 2006 mirrors the doubled voice that emerged at the end of the 1972 ...
Síða xix
... English translation, there is no neat narrative sublation of the 1961 lyricism into the mastering irony of 1972. The two prefaces coexist in an aporetic relation that refuses to erase, in some happy resolution, the contradictory traces ...
... English translation, there is no neat narrative sublation of the 1961 lyricism into the mastering irony of 1972. The two prefaces coexist in an aporetic relation that refuses to erase, in some happy resolution, the contradictory traces ...
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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