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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... acts and their traces, the sharp thrust of the present and the percussive repetitions of a past remembered. It is also, ultimately, a small explosion, one of many object-events destined to disappear: “I think of x prefaCe.
... acts and their traces, the sharp thrust of the present and the percussive repetitions of a past remembered. It is also, ultimately, a small explosion, one of many object-events destined to disappear: “I think of x prefaCe.
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... act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the fraught relation between reason and unreason shows us. Splitting is both a unity and a division into something other in which the unity is lost. It is both the moment of that ...
... act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the fraught relation between reason and unreason shows us. Splitting is both a unity and a division into something other in which the unity is lost. It is both the moment of that ...
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... act of meaning making that distances itself from nonmeaning—is the stance reason takes, in History, as separate from unreason. To interrogate its own History making gesture as an exclusionary activity of reason would mean to interrogate ...
... act of meaning making that distances itself from nonmeaning—is the stance reason takes, in History, as separate from unreason. To interrogate its own History making gesture as an exclusionary activity of reason would mean to interrogate ...
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... act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of reason and History. Thus to occupy that historical future, as we do, and, at the same time, to commit to opening a passage foreclosed by the very future we ...
... act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of reason and History. Thus to occupy that historical future, as we do, and, at the same time, to commit to opening a passage foreclosed by the very future we ...
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... act of division that already denounces and masters them. . . . Any perception that aims to apprehend them in their wild state necessarily belongs to a world that has captured them already. The liberty of madness can only be heard from ...
... act of division that already denounces and masters them. . . . Any perception that aims to apprehend them in their wild state necessarily belongs to a world that has captured them already. The liberty of madness can only be heard from ...
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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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