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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... Madness's importance to his oeuvre. Like most feminists with an interest in queer theory, I had not paid much attention to Madness, focusing instead on the first volume of the History of Sexuality (1976) for an understanding of sex and ...
... Madness's importance to his oeuvre. Like most feminists with an interest in queer theory, I had not paid much attention to Madness, focusing instead on the first volume of the History of Sexuality (1976) for an understanding of sex and ...
Síða xi
... Madness as one of the great unread texts of queer theory. My major aim is to read Madness, retrospectively, in light ... History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self—both published in French in 1984—as well as some ...
... Madness as one of the great unread texts of queer theory. My major aim is to read Madness, retrospectively, in light ... History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self—both published in French in 1984—as well as some ...
Síða xii
... History of Madness in the context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the explosive doubling of the book-event points to the complexity of a book's reception and its impact in the world. The “doubling” of a book-event occurs in very ...
... History of Madness in the context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the explosive doubling of the book-event points to the complexity of a book's reception and its impact in the world. The “doubling” of a book-event occurs in very ...
Síða xiii
... Madness were based on this shortened popular edition. This explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, that was published in 1965 ...
... Madness were based on this shortened popular edition. This explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, that was published in 1965 ...
Síða xiv
... Madness clearly lays the foundations for certain constants in Foucault's thinking. These include, most importantly ... History of Madness is to miss a crucial dimension of sexuality in Foucault. Finally, and more specifically, if we ...
... Madness clearly lays the foundations for certain constants in Foucault's thinking. These include, most importantly ... History of Madness is to miss a crucial dimension of sexuality in Foucault. Finally, and more specifically, if we ...
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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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