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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
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These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first ...
These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first ...
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If Christianity was at least partially responsible for turning sexuality into a moral experience in the Western world, ... Foucault ultimately saw, the story goes, that one way to get out from under morality as we know it in ...
If Christianity was at least partially responsible for turning sexuality into a moral experience in the Western world, ... Foucault ultimately saw, the story goes, that one way to get out from under morality as we know it in ...
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were not coded according to Christian moral conceptions of the body and desire. Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self-fashioning in relation to others might take place in a context that ...
were not coded according to Christian moral conceptions of the body and desire. Only in this pre-Christian petri dish could an experiment occur where ethical self-fashioning in relation to others might take place in a context that ...
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Reading this alternative ethics in Foucault brings together, then, Foucault's final question about sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness.
Reading this alternative ethics in Foucault brings together, then, Foucault's final question about sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness.
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... and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing. For Foucault, in both his intellectual and activist work, “neither cultural or moral affinities, nor a community of interests, ...
... and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing. For Foucault, in both his intellectual and activist work, “neither cultural or moral affinities, nor a community of interests, ...
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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