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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... object-event. The voice of the preface is a humble one: The event is “minuscule,” “almost imperceptible among so many others,” “an object that fits into the hand” (M xxxvii). As humble object, the book must take care to avoid speaking ...
... object-event. The voice of the preface is a humble one: The event is “minuscule,” “almost imperceptible among so many others,” “an object that fits into the hand” (M xxxvii). As humble object, the book must take care to avoid speaking ...
Síða xi
... object-event, discourse, repetition, and explosive disappearance. In the pages of this book, I will unpack these concepts and use them to guide my thinking on Foucault, queer theory, and the ethics of sex. Taking seriously the status of ...
... object-event, discourse, repetition, and explosive disappearance. In the pages of this book, I will unpack these concepts and use them to guide my thinking on Foucault, queer theory, and the ethics of sex. Taking seriously the status of ...
Síða xii
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. becomes an object of sight and, paradoxically, in that moment of visibility disappears from view. In this sense, the book as object-event takes its place within a larger ...
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. becomes an object of sight and, paradoxically, in that moment of visibility disappears from view. In this sense, the book as object-event takes its place within a larger ...
Síða xxi
... object to be released, as Foucault would put it, into the series of events to which it belongs. First and foremost, I want to thank my dear friends Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon, both of whom read much of the manuscript in its ...
... object to be released, as Foucault would put it, into the series of events to which it belongs. First and foremost, I want to thank my dear friends Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon, both of whom read much of the manuscript in its ...
Síða 17
... object-events whose casual abandon both punctures and lightens the ink-heavy atmosphere of theory. I offer them, then, as a “surprised and joyful foolishness” that, like Foucault's “incomprehensive burst of laughter,” is more interested ...
... object-events whose casual abandon both punctures and lightens the ink-heavy atmosphere of theory. I offer them, then, as a “surprised and joyful foolishness” that, like Foucault's “incomprehensive burst of laughter,” is more interested ...
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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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