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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... century. My own singularly strange, intensive encounter with Madness is strikingly similar to what Foucault describes as the explosive contact that occurs between a book and a reader. In his marvelous, self-ironizing preface to the 1972 ...
... century. My own singularly strange, intensive encounter with Madness is strikingly similar to what Foucault describes as the explosive contact that occurs between a book and a reader. In his marvelous, self-ironizing preface to the 1972 ...
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... century, that tragic subjectivity had been masked by science in the capture of madness as mental illness. Within that conception of modern subjectivity as a mask that hides our tragic corporeality, Foucault celebrates an erotic ...
... century, that tragic subjectivity had been masked by science in the capture of madness as mental illness. Within that conception of modern subjectivity as a mask that hides our tragic corporeality, Foucault celebrates an erotic ...
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... century Europe, for example—or even in twentieth-century Milledgeville, Georgia, where the world's largest asylum stood (and where, strangely, I ended up renting a house in 2007 and drafting this book about madness)—my queerness would ...
... century Europe, for example—or even in twentieth-century Milledgeville, Georgia, where the world's largest asylum stood (and where, strangely, I ended up renting a house in 2007 and drafting this book about madness)—my queerness would ...
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... century French village idiot, Jouy, in Sexuality One and Abnormal, and in his infamous comments before the 1977 French commission on rape, recounted by Monique Plaza in her angry article, “Our Damages and Their Compensation: Rape: The ...
... century French village idiot, Jouy, in Sexuality One and Abnormal, and in his infamous comments before the 1977 French commission on rape, recounted by Monique Plaza in her angry article, “Our Damages and Their Compensation: Rape: The ...
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... the sole purpose of letting Monsieur know he's thinking of him. Later (it's clear things aren't going well), Foucault becomes Eurydice, languishing in the void. figure 0.2. Ceiling mosaic, Ravenna baptistry (fifth century). introduction 13.
... the sole purpose of letting Monsieur know he's thinking of him. Later (it's clear things aren't going well), Foucault becomes Eurydice, languishing in the void. figure 0.2. Ceiling mosaic, Ravenna baptistry (fifth century). introduction 13.
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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