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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... one way to get out from under morality as we know it in the West was to return to the ancient world in order to unearth pre-Christian corporeal practices that were not coded according to Christian moral conceptions of the prefaCe xv.
... one way to get out from under morality as we know it in the West was to return to the ancient world in order to unearth pre-Christian corporeal practices that were not coded according to Christian moral conceptions of the prefaCe xv.
Síða xvi
... conceptions of the body and desire. Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self ... conception of modern subjectivity as a mask that hides our tragic corporeality, Foucault celebrates an erotic ...
... conceptions of the body and desire. Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self ... conception of modern subjectivity as a mask that hides our tragic corporeality, Foucault celebrates an erotic ...
Síða xvii
... conception of history as a series of doublings refuses the comfort of a nostalgic return to the tragic subjectivity we have lost. Rather, in its ironic mode, historical doubling always includes a force of destruction, unhappiness, and ...
... conception of history as a series of doublings refuses the comfort of a nostalgic return to the tragic subjectivity we have lost. Rather, in its ironic mode, historical doubling always includes a force of destruction, unhappiness, and ...
Síða 8
... conceptions of identity, politics, and marginalization. That chronological moment, around 1990, was a crucial time for the paradoxical coming together as splitting that we might retrospectively call the feminist birth of queer theory ...
... conceptions of identity, politics, and marginalization. That chronological moment, around 1990, was a crucial time for the paradoxical coming together as splitting that we might retrospectively call the feminist birth of queer theory ...
Síða 26
... conceptions of textuality, language, and dialectical thinking. For Derrida, Descartes lends himself to an internal reading of a metaphysical structure that establishes the conditions of possibility of all thought. Rather than excluding ...
... conceptions of textuality, language, and dialectical thinking. For Derrida, Descartes lends himself to an internal reading of a metaphysical structure that establishes the conditions of possibility of all thought. Rather than excluding ...
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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