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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xii
... version became the standard edition of the book . Not only was the French public likely to read an incomplete book but , with the exception of the Italian version, all the foreign language translations of XII PREFACE.
... version became the standard edition of the book . Not only was the French public likely to read an incomplete book but , with the exception of the Italian version, all the foreign language translations of XII PREFACE.
Síða xiii
... language translations of Madness were based on this shortened popular edition. This explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason ...
... language translations of Madness were based on this shortened popular edition. This explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason ...
Síða xiv
... language of Foucault's later work, in what Michel Feher calls Foucault's interest in “the poten- tial for moral innovation and a politics of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through the lens of a queer ...
... language of Foucault's later work, in what Michel Feher calls Foucault's interest in “the poten- tial for moral innovation and a politics of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through the lens of a queer ...
Síða xv
... language that purportedly allows the madness of sexuality to “speak,” Madness offers an alternative ethi- cal language of eros for engaging the difference of sexual unreason. Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the ...
... language that purportedly allows the madness of sexuality to “speak,” Madness offers an alternative ethi- cal language of eros for engaging the difference of sexual unreason. Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the ...
Síða xix
... language " -is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness . And finding a passage — a way through the thicket , a breach in the wall - describes this book's purpose as well . This book, unexpected, came from many places. It unfolded ...
... language " -is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness . And finding a passage — a way through the thicket , a breach in the wall - describes this book's purpose as well . This book, unexpected, came from many places. It unfolded ...
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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