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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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As an event inevitably caught in a movement of repetition, fragmentation, copying, reflection, and simulation, the book disappears in this other sense, into the infinite proliferation of its doubles as truth.
As an event inevitably caught in a movement of repetition, fragmentation, copying, reflection, and simulation, the book disappears in this other sense, into the infinite proliferation of its doubles as truth.
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Like Freud, Lacan does not belong here, except as a movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a ...
Like Freud, Lacan does not belong here, except as a movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a ...
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... as a founding member of the French antiprison movement, Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP, 1970–72), Foucault was part of a transnational movement against modern structures of imprisonment. As a GIP member, ...
... as a founding member of the French antiprison movement, Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP, 1970–72), Foucault was part of a transnational movement against modern structures of imprisonment. As a GIP member, ...
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GIP also helped bring the writings of Eldridge Cleaver and other activists in the American Black Power movement to the attention of the French public.5 Despite the racial dimension of GIP's analysis of the prison system, ...
GIP also helped bring the writings of Eldridge Cleaver and other activists in the American Black Power movement to the attention of the French public.5 Despite the racial dimension of GIP's analysis of the prison system, ...
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Thus the force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but fragile movement of a dialogic voice caught between lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se ...
Thus the force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but fragile movement of a dialogic voice caught between lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se ...
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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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