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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Like Freud, Lacan does not belong here, except as a movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a ...
Like Freud, Lacan does not belong here, except as a movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a ...
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51 Only with The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), Dreyfus asserts, does Foucault reject hermeneutics along with Freud, Marx, and early Heidegger.52 Similarly, Lois McNay's otherwise lucid feminist reading of ...
51 Only with The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), Dreyfus asserts, does Foucault reject hermeneutics along with Freud, Marx, and early Heidegger.52 Similarly, Lois McNay's otherwise lucid feminist reading of ...
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My insistence on ethics in Madness leads directly to my engagement with psychoanalysis in its relation to queer theory. I see Foucault's devastating critique of Freud in Madness as the culmination of his critique of morality.
My insistence on ethics in Madness leads directly to my engagement with psychoanalysis in its relation to queer theory. I see Foucault's devastating critique of Freud in Madness as the culmination of his critique of morality.
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Rather than simply condemning queer theory's psychoanalytic propensities out of hand, I address the question: if Foucault and Freud represent intellectual trajectories that are fundamentally incompatible, why do they both hold a ...
Rather than simply condemning queer theory's psychoanalytic propensities out of hand, I address the question: if Foucault and Freud represent intellectual trajectories that are fundamentally incompatible, why do they both hold a ...
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... (M 44) by Cartesian rationalism and the equally despotic Freudian coup that captures the psyche in a patriarchal system. As an autobiographical remark introduction 37.
... (M 44) by Cartesian rationalism and the equally despotic Freudian coup that captures the psyche in a patriarchal system. As an autobiographical remark introduction 37.
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| 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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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Gender and Culture Series |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0231520514, 9780231520515 |
| Length | 304 síður |
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