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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 ix
... calls a “contact with what's outside the book” not only shifted much of what I thought I knew about Foucault but also transformed my hot-and-cold feelings. Suddenly I burned with passion. My archival encounter was nothing less than an ...
... calls a “contact with what's outside the book” not only shifted much of what I thought I knew about Foucault but also transformed my hot-and-cold feelings. Suddenly I burned with passion. My archival encounter was nothing less than an ...
Síða xiv
... calls Foucault's interest in “the potential for moral innovation and a politics of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through the lens of a queer theoretical project that missed it the first time around ...
... calls Foucault's interest in “the potential for moral innovation and a politics of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through the lens of a queer theoretical project that missed it the first time around ...
Síða xvi
... calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of self-fashioning is a worthy one. But I propose ... call Foucault's ethics of eros. This ethics of eros is situated in a trajectory of thought that confronts the Cartesian ...
... calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of self-fashioning is a worthy one. But I propose ... call Foucault's ethics of eros. This ethics of eros is situated in a trajectory of thought that confronts the Cartesian ...
Síða 1
... calls this gesture resignification: we have dusted her off, turned her around, and made her into something beautiful. But somehow, over the years, the queer has become a figure who has lost her generative promise. She turned in on ...
... calls this gesture resignification: we have dusted her off, turned her around, and made her into something beautiful. But somehow, over the years, the queer has become a figure who has lost her generative promise. She turned in on ...
Síða 7
... calls “a shared intolerance with regard to a particular situation.”11 So already Foucault helps with these splits ... call that dimension my love-hate relation to Foucault. The love part stems from the aspects of Foucault's work that are ...
... calls “a shared intolerance with regard to a particular situation.”11 So already Foucault helps with these splits ... call that dimension my love-hate relation to Foucault. The love part stems from the aspects of Foucault's work that are ...
Efni
| 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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