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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 vii
... Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 235 Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros 242 Postlude: A Fool's Laughter 279 Notes 281 Works Cited 313 Index 325 Why We need Madness To shake off philosophy necessarily implies. Contents. Contents.
... Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 235 Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros 242 Postlude: A Fool's Laughter 279 Notes 281 Works Cited 313 Index 325 Why We need Madness To shake off philosophy necessarily implies. Contents. Contents.
Síða xix
... lyricism into the mastering irony of 1972. The two prefaces coexist in an aporetic relation that refuses to erase, in some happy resolution, the contradictory traces of their doubled construction. I've written this preface, then, to ...
... lyricism into the mastering irony of 1972. The two prefaces coexist in an aporetic relation that refuses to erase, in some happy resolution, the contradictory traces of their doubled construction. I've written this preface, then, to ...
Síða 15
... lyricism that came out of personal experience.”21 It was an experience he compared, in one of his letters to Barraqué, to an emerging philosophical landscape: pale, unreal, and as uncertain as a dawn which holds both the promise of ...
... lyricism that came out of personal experience.”21 It was an experience he compared, in one of his letters to Barraqué, to an emerging philosophical landscape: pale, unreal, and as uncertain as a dawn which holds both the promise of ...
Síða 20
... lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se as the voice of transgression or transformation. Rather, I bring out Foucault's lyricism, along with his irony, in order to produce a new encounter—a ...
... lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se as the voice of transgression or transformation. Rather, I bring out Foucault's lyricism, along with his irony, in order to produce a new encounter—a ...
Síða 21
... lyricism and irony to guide my readings of the oppositions that emerge in my approach to Foucault through the lens of History of Madness: the opposition between the 1961 and 1972 prefaces, the redoubling of Madness's exploration of ...
... lyricism and irony to guide my readings of the oppositions that emerge in my approach to Foucault through the lens of History of Madness: the opposition between the 1961 and 1972 prefaces, the redoubling of Madness's exploration of ...
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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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