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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xxiii
... continue to be grateful for their unremitting support of my writing life. Thanks to Smudge and Zora, my furry, purring companions who spent as many hours in my study—in my lap, on my keyboard—as I did. And finally, to Tamara, I want to ...
... continue to be grateful for their unremitting support of my writing life. Thanks to Smudge and Zora, my furry, purring companions who spent as many hours in my study—in my lap, on my keyboard—as I did. And finally, to Tamara, I want to ...
Síða 3
... xii). And from the very start, Hacking continues, “you will have been wondering what it means. Rightly so” (M xii). I'm afraid we can only keep on wondering. It's the problem and the promise of nonsense again. We can only. introduction 3.
... xii). And from the very start, Hacking continues, “you will have been wondering what it means. Rightly so” (M xii). I'm afraid we can only keep on wondering. It's the problem and the promise of nonsense again. We can only. introduction 3.
Síða 7
... continue to be productive. The language I use to interrogate queer theory may not be accessible to the “woman on the street.” But that doesn't mean what I have to say in my theory voice has nothing to do with her either. Nor does it ...
... continue to be productive. The language I use to interrogate queer theory may not be accessible to the “woman on the street.” But that doesn't mean what I have to say in my theory voice has nothing to do with her either. Nor does it ...
Síða 27
... continues, “Foucault abandoned the attempt to recover an authentic experience of madness and acknowledged the philosophical impossibility of such a project” (40). McNay argues that only after Madness does Foucault mature beyond a ...
... continues, “Foucault abandoned the attempt to recover an authentic experience of madness and acknowledged the philosophical impossibility of such a project” (40). McNay argues that only after Madness does Foucault mature beyond a ...
Síða 28
... continues: “that pain and those words” cannot be spoken because they “are only apparent to themselves and to others in the act of division that already denounces and masters them” (M xxxii). All one can do is describe what Foucault ...
... continues: “that pain and those words” cannot be spoken because they “are only apparent to themselves and to others in the act of division that already denounces and masters them” (M xxxii). All one can do is describe what Foucault ...
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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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