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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... perspectives for living in the pres- ent. Looking through the lens of Foucault's final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by asking the question Foucault posed in ...
... perspectives for living in the pres- ent. Looking through the lens of Foucault's final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by asking the question Foucault posed in ...
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... perspective. I have circled around the subject of splitting, the split subject, for many years, often heading off in strange directions trying to find my way through the thicket. Many days, even now as I'm writing, I'm con- vinced ...
... perspective. I have circled around the subject of splitting, the split subject, for many years, often heading off in strange directions trying to find my way through the thicket. Many days, even now as I'm writing, I'm con- vinced ...
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... perspective, “French theory,” a perspective that mixes together thinkers as diverse as the psychoanalytic Lacan, the deconstructive Derrida, and the genealogical Foucault into an odd American stew. While the stew seems outrageous from ...
... perspective, “French theory,” a perspective that mixes together thinkers as diverse as the psychoanalytic Lacan, the deconstructive Derrida, and the genealogical Foucault into an odd American stew. While the stew seems outrageous from ...
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... . " " 43 Given Foucault's rejection here and elsewhere of what he sees as the totalizing frames of professional historians , others have gauged his work from the perspective of philosophy . But if the INTRODUCTION 25.
... . " " 43 Given Foucault's rejection here and elsewhere of what he sees as the totalizing frames of professional historians , others have gauged his work from the perspective of philosophy . But if the INTRODUCTION 25.
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Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. work from the perspective of philosophy . But if the reactions of histori- ans to History of Madness have been mixed at best , philosophers have been no less polarized . Generally ...
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. work from the perspective of philosophy . But if the reactions of histori- ans to History of Madness have been mixed at best , philosophers have been no less polarized . Generally ...
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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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