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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xi
... and transcriptions of his courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and interviews, I hope to productively unravel some of the blind spots and dogmas of contemporary queer theory.
... and transcriptions of his courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and interviews, I hope to productively unravel some of the blind spots and dogmas of contemporary queer theory.
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agreement among Foucauldians about the continuity of Foucault's ideas over the course of his life, Madness clearly lays the foundations for certain constants in Foucault's thinking. These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained ...
agreement among Foucauldians about the continuity of Foucault's ideas over the course of his life, Madness clearly lays the foundations for certain constants in Foucault's thinking. These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained ...
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Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault returned to his earlier interest in the problem of sexuality as a problem of experience. He did this, primarily, ...
Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault returned to his earlier interest in the problem of sexuality as a problem of experience. He did this, primarily, ...
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Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an intention on the book one has written. Foucault faces this difficulty when he is asked ...
Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an intention on the book one has written. Foucault faces this difficulty when he is asked ...
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I am grateful to every student in the course and especially to Mark for what I will always remember as a singular event that took us far beyond the bounds of the seminar genre into an experience I can only describe as poetic.
I am grateful to every student in the course and especially to Mark for what I will always remember as a singular event that took us far beyond the bounds of the seminar genre into an experience I can only describe as poetic.
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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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