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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... 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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Since in itself unreason is nothing, I make my entrée into this difficult material through the act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the fraught relation between reason and unreason shows us. Splitting is both a unity and a ...
Since in itself unreason is nothing, I make my entrée into this difficult material through the act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the fraught relation between reason and unreason shows us. Splitting is both a unity and a ...
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The future—as a retrospective, teleological 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 ...
The future—as a retrospective, teleological 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 ...
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In that sense, the opening of a passage produced by the mad “thing in becoming” is inevitably an opening “refused by the future” because that future—the act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of ...
In that sense, the opening of a passage produced by the mad “thing in becoming” is inevitably an opening “refused by the future” because that future—the act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of ...
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... and those insane words that nothing anchors in time; and above all because that pain and those words only exist, and are only apparent to themselves and to others in the act of division that already denounces and masters them.
... and those insane words that nothing anchors in time; and above all because that pain and those words only exist, and are only apparent to themselves and to others in the act of division that already denounces and masters them.
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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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