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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... figure who has lost her generative promise. She turned in on herself and became fro- zen into a new, very American identity. And if the transformation itself is to be celebrated, the final freezing is not. Getting stuck in identities ...
... figure who has lost her generative promise. She turned in on herself and became fro- zen into a new, very American identity. And if the transformation itself is to be celebrated, the final freezing is not. Getting stuck in identities ...
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... (figure 0.1). It's one I have offered to others in their moments of sheer panic at the seeming emptiness of their own writing endeavors. “See, there's a book in there,” I cheerily tell them. “You may not see it, but it's there.” This ...
... (figure 0.1). It's one I have offered to others in their moments of sheer panic at the seeming emptiness of their own writing endeavors. “See, there's a book in there,” I cheerily tell them. “You may not see it, but it's there.” This ...
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... FIGURE 0.1 Ziggy cartoon the cartoon brings them solace . But here's the truth : I don't actually believe there's a book in there . Don't get me wrong : I believe in the book , but it's not in there . Yes , we talk about our insides all ...
... FIGURE 0.1 Ziggy cartoon the cartoon brings them solace . But here's the truth : I don't actually believe there's a book in there . Don't get me wrong : I believe in the book , but it's not in there . Yes , we talk about our insides all ...
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... figure that, for me, helps explain all the others. Inspired by Susan Howe who, in My Emily Dickinson (1985), makes the poet her own without possessing her, I've found myself re- ceiving Foucault through personal channels, in a mode I ...
... figure that, for me, helps explain all the others. Inspired by Susan Howe who, in My Emily Dickinson (1985), makes the poet her own without possessing her, I've found myself re- ceiving Foucault through personal channels, in a mode I ...
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... (figure 0.2). Foucault's scrawled message to Barraqué tells him he's been swim- ming during his stay in Italy—he uses the expression faire trempette— just like Jesus. Faire trempette: to go for a swim or take a dip, but also, more ...
... (figure 0.2). Foucault's scrawled message to Barraqué tells him he's been swim- ming during his stay in Italy—he uses the expression faire trempette— just like Jesus. Faire trempette: to go for a swim or take a dip, but also, more ...
Efni
| 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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