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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... freedom. That project was his attempt to release sexuality as an ethical experience from its suturing to bourgeois categories of morality. In that context, Madness both explores how that suturing occurred and forges an opening toward ...
... freedom. That project was his attempt to release sexuality as an ethical experience from its suturing to bourgeois categories of morality. In that context, Madness both explores how that suturing occurred and forges an opening toward ...
Síða xvi
... freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of self-fashioning is a worthy one. But I propose reading Foucault from a different angle and under a different light. Specifically, in order to grapple with the difficult question ...
... freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of self-fashioning is a worthy one. But I propose reading Foucault from a different angle and under a different light. Specifically, in order to grapple with the difficult question ...
Síða xviii
... freedom” (M xxxviii). Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an intention on the book one has written. Foucault faces this ...
... freedom” (M xxxviii). Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an intention on the book one has written. Foucault faces this ...
Síða 5
... freedom is both already imposed and self-perpetuating. But I also have heard and analyzed many of the ways in which Foucault seemed not to notice women: “It was literally as if I wasn't there,” one of my graduate school professors told ...
... freedom is both already imposed and self-perpetuating. But I also have heard and analyzed many of the ways in which Foucault seemed not to notice women: “It was literally as if I wasn't there,” one of my graduate school professors told ...
Síða 14
... freedom, your pleasure. As your letters cease I too disappear, becoming a myth. Sometimes, at night, in my narrow bed pushed up against the wall, I find you again: I enter that space, deliciously contracted, of body against body. I am ...
... freedom, your pleasure. As your letters cease I too disappear, becoming a myth. Sometimes, at night, in my narrow bed pushed up against the wall, I find you again: I enter that space, deliciously contracted, of body against body. I am ...
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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