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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xv
... begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of psychoanalysis and asking, more specifically, about the question of ethics as it relates to sexual experience. Providing an alternative to the psychoanalytic language ...
... begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of psychoanalysis and asking, more specifically, about the question of ethics as it relates to sexual experience. Providing an alternative to the psychoanalytic language ...
Síða xvii
... present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a preface, when in 1972 Foucault so adamantly denounces the form as “a declaration of tyranny” (M xxxviii) that allows the author to impose her own prefaCe xvii.
... present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a preface, when in 1972 Foucault so adamantly denounces the form as “a declaration of tyranny” (M xxxviii) that allows the author to impose her own prefaCe xvii.
Síða xviii
... begins. But he finds the idea to be “unattractive” (M xxxvii), even repugnant, as the original French j'y répugne (F 9) suggests. Nonetheless, Foucault cannot dispense with a new preface altogether, even if its only real purpose is to ...
... begins. But he finds the idea to be “unattractive” (M xxxvii), even repugnant, as the original French j'y répugne (F 9) suggests. Nonetheless, Foucault cannot dispense with a new preface altogether, even if its only real purpose is to ...
Síða 1
... begins with the story of a split: the great division between reason and unreason. That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of subjectivity tossed into a dustbin called madness. Queerness is a name ...
... begins with the story of a split: the great division between reason and unreason. That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of subjectivity tossed into a dustbin called madness. Queerness is a name ...
Síða 2
... begin my book here with a story about splitting— about writing a book as a split subject. To some, this abstract language about split subjectivity will sound nonsensical or, even worse, Lacanian. If it sounds like nonsense, we might do ...
... begin my book here with a story about splitting— about writing a book as a split subject. To some, this abstract language about split subjectivity will sound nonsensical or, even worse, Lacanian. If it sounds like nonsense, we might do ...
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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