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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... the Absence of an Oeuvre” and “My Body, This Paper, This Fire”; an additional appendix, “Reply to Derrida,” from a 1972 Tokyo lecture; and four critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There ...
... the Absence of an Oeuvre” and “My Body, This Paper, This Fire”; an additional appendix, “Reply to Derrida,” from a 1972 Tokyo lecture; and four critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There ...
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The intervention takes place within a vast critical context that includes myriad responses to Foucault. My purpose here is not to reproduce an exhaustive overview of those responses to Madness. Others have done so, and interested ...
The intervention takes place within a vast critical context that includes myriad responses to Foucault. My purpose here is not to reproduce an exhaustive overview of those responses to Madness. Others have done so, and interested ...
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Generally speaking, historians have been sharply critical of History of Madness, arguing that the book suffers from oversimplification or even flies in the face of empirical evidence regarding the management of madness in seventeenth- ...
Generally speaking, historians have been sharply critical of History of Madness, arguing that the book suffers from oversimplification or even flies in the face of empirical evidence regarding the management of madness in seventeenth- ...
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... for Foucault himself, the term revolution corresponds to a cultural moment in modern France—from the end of the Second World War to the mid1970s—of which he was deeply critical even as early as 1961 when Madness was published.
... for Foucault himself, the term revolution corresponds to a cultural moment in modern France—from the end of the Second World War to the mid1970s—of which he was deeply critical even as early as 1961 when Madness was published.
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The one exception to this critical erasure of sexuality in Madness is, as I've mentioned, Eribon's Insult and the Making of the Gay Self.64 Not surprisingly, Eribon writes from a French perspective and as one with a deep and ...
The one exception to this critical erasure of sexuality in Madness is, as I've mentioned, Eribon's Insult and the Making of the Gay Self.64 Not surprisingly, Eribon writes from a French perspective and as one with a deep and ...
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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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