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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiii
... Body, This Paper, This Fire”; an additional appendix, “Reply to Derrida,” from a 1972 Tokyo lecture; and four critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There is no denying the importance of this ...
... Body, This Paper, This Fire”; an additional appendix, “Reply to Derrida,” from a 1972 Tokyo lecture; and four critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There is no denying the importance of this ...
Síða xvi
... body and desire. Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self-fashioning in ... body dualism with an insistence on the role the body plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also ...
... body and desire. Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self-fashioning in ... body dualism with an insistence on the role the body plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also ...
Síða 12
... body is submerged in a milky liquid with which his lover, a leopard-skin clad Jean, has been baptizing him; that same body, we must 12 introduction.
... body is submerged in a milky liquid with which his lover, a leopard-skin clad Jean, has been baptizing him; that same body, we must 12 introduction.
Síða 13
... body, we must assume, will then be lovingly eaten in an erotic transmutation of bread into spirit. The entire scene in the mosaic is witnessed by a naked pagan god: the personification of the Jordan River, the source of the milky liquid ...
... body, we must assume, will then be lovingly eaten in an erotic transmutation of bread into spirit. The entire scene in the mosaic is witnessed by a naked pagan god: the personification of the Jordan River, the source of the milky liquid ...
Síða 14
... body against body. I am pressed by you like a flower against paper. Hearing only your silence, I slip quietly beneath your sleep, feel only your breath. You are my most faithful madness. Madness, silence, love's little deaths. The ...
... body against body. I am pressed by you like a flower against paper. Hearing only your silence, I slip quietly beneath your sleep, feel only your breath. You are my most faithful madness. Madness, silence, love's little deaths. The ...
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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