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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xv
... erotic relation into something to be judged according to a rigid system of moral norms. This is, in fact, what Foucault saw after writing the still unpublished fourth volume of History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh, about the ...
... erotic relation into something to be judged according to a rigid system of moral norms. This is, in fact, what Foucault saw after writing the still unpublished fourth volume of History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh, about the ...
Síða xvi
... erotic bonds of bodies are coded as moral experience. This approach to Foucault will tease out, in Madness, his ethical alternative to the philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative ...
... erotic bonds of bodies are coded as moral experience. This approach to Foucault will tease out, in Madness, his ethical alternative to the philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative ...
Síða xvii
... erotic generosity makes us want to cling to its promise of transformative connection, the violent force of erotic irony reminds us that the thing we're clinging to is a stick of dynamite. This explosive force of ironic generosity ...
... erotic generosity makes us want to cling to its promise of transformative connection, the violent force of erotic irony reminds us that the thing we're clinging to is a stick of dynamite. This explosive force of ironic generosity ...
Síða 13
... erotic transmutation of bread into spirit. The entire scene in the mosaic is witnessed by a naked pagan god: the personification of the Jordan River, the source of the milky liquid. Most visibly, at the center of the mosaic, the Holy ...
... erotic transmutation of bread into spirit. The entire scene in the mosaic is witnessed by a naked pagan god: the personification of the Jordan River, the source of the milky liquid. Most visibly, at the center of the mosaic, the Holy ...
Síða 36
... erotic life, Sexuality One gives us only the thin abstractions of a dispositif—the webs of power-knowledge that have no contact with the living, breathing world of eros. Ironically, queer theory rediscovers that which is lost—what I'm ...
... erotic life, Sexuality One gives us only the thin abstractions of a dispositif—the webs of power-knowledge that have no contact with the living, breathing world of eros. Ironically, queer theory rediscovers that which is lost—what I'm ...
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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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