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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by asking the question Foucault posed in 1984 not long before his death, “why [have] we made sexuality into a moral ...
... final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by asking the question Foucault posed in 1984 not long before his death, “why [have] we made sexuality into a moral ...
Síða xvii
... final question about sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral expe- rience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness. Bringing them together allows us to reengage the question of a possible queer ethics in ...
... final question about sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral expe- rience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness. Bringing them together allows us to reengage the question of a possible queer ethics in ...
Síða 1
... final freezing is not. Getting stuck in identities that are often politically or medically engineered, the queer is drained of her transformative, contestatory power. This is where History of Mad- ness can help us, as the story of a ...
... final freezing is not. Getting stuck in identities that are often politically or medically engineered, the queer is drained of her transformative, contestatory power. This is where History of Mad- ness can help us, as the story of a ...
Síða 8
... final volumes on the history of sexuality, where the Greco-Roman world is reduced primarily to a uni- verse occupied by elite men and where the reality of the lives of women and slaves is given little attention. I didn't much like those ...
... final volumes on the history of sexuality, where the Greco-Roman world is reduced primarily to a uni- verse occupied by elite men and where the reality of the lives of women and slaves is given little attention. I didn't much like those ...
Síða 14
... final letters from late 1955 and 1956, written from Sweden (where Foucault held a post at the university in Uppsala), what remains, most palpably, is Foucault's distress. But this suffocating sadness, although obvious, is surprisingly ...
... final letters from late 1955 and 1956, written from Sweden (where Foucault held a post at the university in Uppsala), what remains, most palpably, is Foucault's distress. But this suffocating sadness, although obvious, is surprisingly ...
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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