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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 x
... describes as the explosive contact that occurs between a book and a reader. In his marvelous, self-ironizing preface to the 1972 French revised edition of Madness, Foucault describes his book as an object-event. The voice of the preface ...
... describes as the explosive contact that occurs between a book and a reader. In his marvelous, self-ironizing preface to the 1972 French revised edition of Madness, Foucault describes his book as an object-event. The voice of the preface ...
Síða xvii
... describes a force of both connection and dissolution: It is both tragic and ironic, lyrical and ludic, the site of utopian promise and aporetic cynicism. If erotic generosity makes us want to cling to its promise of transformative ...
... describes a force of both connection and dissolution: It is both tragic and ironic, lyrical and ludic, the site of utopian promise and aporetic cynicism. If erotic generosity makes us want to cling to its promise of transformative ...
Síða xix
... is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness. And finding a passage—a way through the thicket, a breach in the wall—describes this book's purpose as well. This book, unexpected, came from many places. It unfolded in prefaCe xix.
... is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness. And finding a passage—a way through the thicket, a breach in the wall—describes this book's purpose as well. This book, unexpected, came from many places. It unfolded in prefaCe xix.
Síða 7
... describes as “a certain common difficulty in bearing what happens”9 and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing. For Foucault, in both his intellectual and activist work, “neither ...
... describes as “a certain common difficulty in bearing what happens”9 and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing. For Foucault, in both his intellectual and activist work, “neither ...
Síða 11
... describes as another of the great loves of Foucault's life. Foucault and Barraqué met in the early 1950s after a period in which Foucault had made two suicide attempts. As Eribon presents him, Barraqué may accurately be described as a ...
... describes as another of the great loves of Foucault's life. Foucault and Barraqué met in the early 1950s after a period in which Foucault had made two suicide attempts. As Eribon presents him, Barraqué may accurately be described as a ...
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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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