Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryMichel 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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 x
... strategy and shock, struggle and trophy or wound, conjuncture and vestige, strange meeting and repeatable scene” (Mxxxviii). For Foucault, the book is a confluence of forces—causes and effects, contexts and consequences ...
... strategy and shock, struggle and trophy or wound, conjuncture and vestige, strange meeting and repeatable scene” (Mxxxviii). For Foucault, the book is a confluence of forces—causes and effects, contexts and consequences ...
Síða xii
... (M xxxviii)—its readers, its commentators, the multiple interlocutors who constitute its various discursive contexts. ... belatedly and retrospectively, into my reinterpretation of History of Madness in the context of queer theory.
... (M xxxviii)—its readers, its commentators, the multiple interlocutors who constitute its various discursive contexts. ... belatedly and retrospectively, into my reinterpretation of History of Madness in the context of queer theory.
Síða xv
... attention to homosexuality's exclusion in the world of unreason and his emphasis on Foucault's critique of psychoanalysis in Madness clearly make the case for a more sustained engagement with the book, especially in a queer context.
... attention to homosexuality's exclusion in the world of unreason and his emphasis on Foucault's critique of psychoanalysis in Madness clearly make the case for a more sustained engagement with the book, especially in a queer context.
Síða xvi
Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self-fashioning in relation to others might take place in a context that Foucault calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of ...
Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self-fashioning in relation to others might take place in a context that Foucault calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of ...
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8 Given this context, it was hard for me to put my feminist and antiracist worries aside and embrace Foucault. And yet, despite the problems, over the course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became ...
8 Given this context, it was hard for me to put my feminist and antiracist worries aside and embrace Foucault. And yet, despite the problems, over the course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became ...
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| 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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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Gender and Culture Series |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0231520514, 9780231520515 |
| Length | 304 síður |
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