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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xii
... appears and “disappears . . . into the series of events to which it belongs” (M xxxviii). In the case of History of Madness, its status as a nonevent in queer theory is, at least in part, a consequence of the story of its nontranslation ...
... appears and “disappears . . . into the series of events to which it belongs” (M xxxviii). In the case of History of Madness, its status as a nonevent in queer theory is, at least in part, a consequence of the story of its nontranslation ...
Síða 6
... appear. A big one for me—a crack as deep as the San Andreas fault—is the split between my political activist self and the academic self that speaks the strange language of high French theory. And that split holds true both for the ...
... appear. A big one for me—a crack as deep as the San Andreas fault—is the split between my political activist self and the academic self that speaks the strange language of high French theory. And that split holds true both for the ...
Síða 11
... his letter to Barraqué, “like Swann, to stand guard at the entrance to the Verdurin palace until the first rays of dawn appear.”15 Eribon describes the relationship between Foucault and Barraqué, which lasted from introduction 11.
... his letter to Barraqué, “like Swann, to stand guard at the entrance to the Verdurin palace until the first rays of dawn appear.”15 Eribon describes the relationship between Foucault and Barraqué, which lasted from introduction 11.
Síða 14
... appears that Barraqué chose his work over what he saw as the trap of passion.17 Foucault promises to leave quietly, tiptoeing out the door. In the final letters from late 1955 and 1956, written from Sweden (where Foucault held a post at ...
... appears that Barraqué chose his work over what he saw as the trap of passion.17 Foucault promises to leave quietly, tiptoeing out the door. In the final letters from late 1955 and 1956, written from Sweden (where Foucault held a post at ...
Síða 15
... appears in the midst of a story as a moment of rupture, as an interruption in the narrative flow. To allow for rupture in the flow of a story is to allow for the “obstinate murmur” of something other to come to the surface, to attempt ...
... appears in the midst of a story as a moment of rupture, as an interruption in the narrative flow. To allow for rupture in the flow of a story is to allow for the “obstinate murmur” of something other to come to the surface, to attempt ...
Efni
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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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