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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... force of an opening in history. Paradoxically, it is precisely in its lightness—in its refusal to be weighed down by a tradition of explications de texte, which would confer on it some official status—that the book as discourse and as ...
... force of an opening in history. Paradoxically, it is precisely in its lightness—in its refusal to be weighed down by a tradition of explications de texte, which would confer on it some official status—that the book as discourse and as ...
Síða xi
... to sight or understanding—functions, like discourse, as the illuminating but fragmenting force through which the discontinuous multiplicity of history becomes an object of sight and, paradoxically, in that moment prefaCe xi.
... to sight or understanding—functions, like discourse, as the illuminating but fragmenting force through which the discontinuous multiplicity of history becomes an object of sight and, paradoxically, in that moment prefaCe xi.
Síða xii
... force of dynamite. That force is felt in the world, in “the series of events to which [the book] belongs” (M xxxviii)—its readers, its commentators, the multiple interlocutors who constitute its various discursive contexts. In this way ...
... force of dynamite. That force is felt in the world, in “the series of events to which [the book] belongs” (M xxxviii)—its readers, its commentators, the multiple interlocutors who constitute its various discursive contexts. In this way ...
Síða xvii
... force of destruction, unhappiness, and pain. As the constitutive element of Foucault's ethics, eros is driven not only by the force of an intersubjective generosity but by a force of ironic undoing as well. Eros indeed contains its ...
... force of destruction, unhappiness, and pain. As the constitutive element of Foucault's ethics, eros is driven not only by the force of an intersubjective generosity but by a force of ironic undoing as well. Eros indeed contains its ...
Síða 20
... force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but fragile movement of a dialogic voice caught between lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se as the ...
... force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but fragile movement of a dialogic voice caught between lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se as the ...
Efni
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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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