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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiv
... critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and ...
... critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and ...
Síða xv
... critique of psychoanalysis in Madness clearly make the case for a more sustained engagement with the book, especially in a queer context. My analysis of Madness begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of ...
... critique of psychoanalysis in Madness clearly make the case for a more sustained engagement with the book, especially in a queer context. My analysis of Madness begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of ...
Síða 3
... critique of psychic interiority in the chapters that follow. For the moment, I want simply to note this opening connection between a belief in our insides and the problem of splitting. This introduction gestures toward the splits that ...
... critique of psychic interiority in the chapters that follow. For the moment, I want simply to note this opening connection between a belief in our insides and the problem of splitting. This introduction gestures toward the splits that ...
Síða 5
... critique of him as a thinker of imprisonment who does not acknowledge the role of race in what critics call the prisonindustrial complex.4 To be sure, as a founding member of the French antiprison movement, Groupe d'Information sur les ...
... critique of him as a thinker of imprisonment who does not acknowledge the role of race in what critics call the prisonindustrial complex.4 To be sure, as a founding member of the French antiprison movement, Groupe d'Information sur les ...
Síða 8
... critique of Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit. Although ...
... critique of Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit. Although ...
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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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