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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xi
... death in 1984, including interviews, public lectures, radio debates, roundtables, political pamphlets, and transcriptions of his courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and ...
... death in 1984, including interviews, public lectures, radio debates, roundtables, political pamphlets, and transcriptions of his courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and ...
Síða xv
... death, “why [have] we made sexuality into a moral experience?”11 There are many possible responses to that question, including: it was Christianity that turned the erotic relation into something to be judged according to a rigid system ...
... death, “why [have] we made sexuality into a moral experience?”11 There are many possible responses to that question, including: it was Christianity that turned the erotic relation into something to be judged according to a rigid system ...
Síða xvi
... death. In its premodern form, madness as unreason stood in for that bodily dimension of human experience: the cosmic, tragic presence of life and death—Eros and Thanatos—at the heart of all subjectivity. By the late eighteenth century ...
... death. In its premodern form, madness as unreason stood in for that bodily dimension of human experience: the cosmic, tragic presence of life and death—Eros and Thanatos—at the heart of all subjectivity. By the late eighteenth century ...
Síða 11
... death, Defert will not allow researchers to consult “Confessions of the Flesh,” written by Foucault in the 1970s but never published. It's hard not to see the suppression of the volume as anything other than a withholding that repeats ...
... death, Defert will not allow researchers to consult “Confessions of the Flesh,” written by Foucault in the 1970s but never published. It's hard not to see the suppression of the volume as anything other than a withholding that repeats ...
Síða 14
... deaths. The correspondence forms the arc of a story, from the Ravenna postcard to Foucault's last letter dated May ... death. Barraqué marks a shift—an opening, a transformation—not only in Foucault's life, but in his thinking: a shift ...
... deaths. The correspondence forms the arc of a story, from the Ravenna postcard to Foucault's last letter dated May ... death. Barraqué marks a shift—an opening, a transformation—not only in Foucault's life, but in his thinking: a shift ...
Efni
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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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