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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiv
... later work on ethics in Sexuality Two and Three. These three dimensions of ethics in Madness can be linked to the more explicitly ethical and political language of Foucault's later work, in what Michel Feher calls Foucault's interest in ...
... later work on ethics in Sexuality Two and Three. These three dimensions of ethics in Madness can be linked to the more explicitly ethical and political language of Foucault's later work, in what Michel Feher calls Foucault's interest in ...
Síða xviii
... later puts it in Madness, one that destabilizes the certainty of the self-identical authorial subject's declaration of freedom from an ancien régime: “Then remove the old one [l'ancienne]” (M xxxix/F10; translation modified). As we will ...
... later puts it in Madness, one that destabilizes the certainty of the self-identical authorial subject's declaration of freedom from an ancien régime: “Then remove the old one [l'ancienne]” (M xxxix/F10; translation modified). As we will ...
Síða xix
... later reservations about what he retrospectively saw in Madness as “a lingering Hegelianism”12— Foucault knew that irony was not a simple matter of dialectical reversal along the linear timeline of a story: “Homo dialecticus,” he wrote ...
... later reservations about what he retrospectively saw in Madness as “a lingering Hegelianism”12— Foucault knew that irony was not a simple matter of dialectical reversal along the linear timeline of a story: “Homo dialecticus,” he wrote ...
Síða xxii
... later drafts of the manuscript was undertaken during three residencies at the Hambidge Center in the north Georgia mountains during the summers of 2007 and 2008 and for a short week in December 2007. I am grateful for the creative spark ...
... later drafts of the manuscript was undertaken during three residencies at the Hambidge Center in the north Georgia mountains during the summers of 2007 and 2008 and for a short week in December 2007. I am grateful for the creative spark ...
Síða 8
... later, I found him again, in the work of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Ironically, given my subsequent feminist misgivings about his work, I met Foucault through the American channels of women's studies. And although I didn't ...
... later, I found him again, in the work of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Ironically, given my subsequent feminist misgivings about his work, I met Foucault through the American channels of women's studies. And although I didn't ...
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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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