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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
From inside the book
Niðurstöður 1 - 5 af 65
Síða x
2006.2 In unpublished remarks I discovered in the archives, Foucault insists, again and again, on Madness's importance to his oeuvre. Like most feminists with an interest in queer theory, I had not paid much attention to Madness, ...
2006.2 In unpublished remarks I discovered in the archives, Foucault insists, again and again, on Madness's importance to his oeuvre. Like most feminists with an interest in queer theory, I had not paid much attention to Madness, ...
Síða xiii
... This Paper, This Fire”; an additional appendix, “Reply to Derrida,” from a 1972 Tokyo lecture; and four critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There is no denying the importance of ...
... This Paper, This Fire”; an additional appendix, “Reply to Derrida,” from a 1972 Tokyo lecture; and four critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There is no denying the importance of ...
Síða xiv
When we don't read Madness, we miss an important story about sexuality that links the apotheosis of reason and the objectifying gaze of science with what Foucault called bourgeois structures of moral exclusion.
When we don't read Madness, we miss an important story about sexuality that links the apotheosis of reason and the objectifying gaze of science with what Foucault called bourgeois structures of moral exclusion.
Síða 5
Yes, his theories of disciplinary subjection as a modern form of productive power have been important for understanding the complex ways in which marginalized people, including women, are caught in mechanisms of subjection and ...
Yes, his theories of disciplinary subjection as a modern form of productive power have been important for understanding the complex ways in which marginalized people, including women, are caught in mechanisms of subjection and ...
Síða 6
And yet, despite the problems, over the course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became more and more important to me. Grounded and formed both in the world of French belles lettres and in the world of ...
And yet, despite the problems, over the course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became more and more important to me. Grounded and formed both in the world of French belles lettres and in the world of ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
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 |
Aðrar útgáfur - View all
Common terms and phrases
acts alterity appear archive argue becomes begins body Butler calls Cartesian cault century chapter conception confinement constitutes context continues course critical critique death Deleuze describes dialectical discursive double emergence engagement English eros erotic ethical exclusion existence experience feminist figure final force Foucauldian Foucault freedom French Freud gender gives Hegelian History of Madness homosexual Ibid identity important includes insists ironic irony knowledge language later limit lives meaning moral movement Nephew never Nietzsche Nietzschean object opening original passage performativity perspective philosophical play political position possibility practice preface present problem produces psyche psychic psychoanalysis puts queer theory question reading reason relation says sense sexual ship of fools social space speak specifically split story structure thing thinking thought tion traces transformation translation modified truth turn unreason voice writes
Bókfræðilegar upplýsingar
| 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 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |