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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 x
... Foucault describes as the explosive contact that occurs between a book and a reader. In his marvelous, self-ironizing preface to the 1972 French revised edition of Madness, Foucault de- scribes his book as an object-event. The voice of ...
... Foucault describes as the explosive contact that occurs between a book and a reader. In his marvelous, self-ironizing preface to the 1972 French revised edition of Madness, Foucault de- scribes his book as an object-event. The voice of ...
Síða xiii
... explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History ... Foucault's thinking during the remain- ing twenty-three years of his life. It is not yet clear, however, whether ...
... explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History ... Foucault's thinking during the remain- ing twenty-three years of his life. It is not yet clear, however, whether ...
Síða xvii
... Foucault, is inhabited by its opposite, unreason. As the point of that division, Foucault's ethics of eros describes a force of both connection and dissolution: It is both tragic and ironic, lyrical and ludic, the site of utopian ...
... Foucault, is inhabited by its opposite, unreason. As the point of that division, Foucault's ethics of eros describes a force of both connection and dissolution: It is both tragic and ironic, lyrical and ludic, the site of utopian ...
Síða xix
... Foucault knew that irony was not a simple matter of dialectical reversal along the linear timeline of a story : “ Homo ... describes this book's purpose as well . This book, unexpected, came from many places. It unfolded in PREFACE XIX.
... Foucault knew that irony was not a simple matter of dialectical reversal along the linear timeline of a story : “ Homo ... describes this book's purpose as well . This book, unexpected, came from many places. It unfolded in PREFACE XIX.
Síða 7
... Foucault describes as “ a certain common difficulty in bearing what hap- pens " and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing . For Foucault , in both his intellec- tual and activist ...
... Foucault describes as “ a certain common difficulty in bearing what hap- pens " and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing . For Foucault , in both his intellec- tual and activist ...
Efni
| 1 | |
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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