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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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This is how a book both 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 ...
This is how a book both 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 ...
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... an antiracist feminist but also queer, I have remained there ever since, in that threshold space where those positions come together but also split. The splitting gets worse. For within each of these categories, other splits appear.
... an antiracist feminist but also queer, I have remained there ever since, in that threshold space where those positions come together but also split. The splitting gets worse. For within each of these categories, other splits appear.
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“I would like,” Foucault writes in 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, ...
“I would like,” Foucault writes in 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, ...
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By the fall of 1955, Barraqué had stopped responding to Foucault's letters from Sweden; it 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.
By the fall of 1955, Barraqué had stopped responding to Foucault's letters from Sweden; it 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.
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Dossiers of Madness An interlude 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 ...
Dossiers of Madness An interlude 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 ...
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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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