Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryMichel 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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Looking through the lens of Foucault's 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, ...
Looking through the lens of Foucault's 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, ...
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Reading this alternative ethics in Foucault brings together, then, Foucault's final question about sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness.
Reading this alternative ethics in Foucault brings together, then, Foucault's final question about sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness.
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... the queer has become a figure who has lost her generative promise. She turned in on herself and became frozen into a new, very American identity. And if the transformation itself is to be celebrated, the final freezing is not.
... the queer has become a figure who has lost her generative promise. She turned in on herself and became frozen into a new, very American identity. And if the transformation itself is to be celebrated, the final freezing is not.
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the bucolic rape passage in Sexuality One, or the infamous scene before the rape commission, but also in his final volumes on the history of sexuality, where the Greco-Roman world is reduced primarily to a universe occupied by elite men ...
the bucolic rape passage in Sexuality One, or the infamous scene before the rape commission, but also in his final volumes on the history of sexuality, where the Greco-Roman world is reduced primarily to a universe occupied by elite men ...
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... 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, ...
... 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, ...
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| 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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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Gender and Culture Series |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0231520514, 9780231520515 |
| Length | 304 síður |
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