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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... philosophical traditions alike. Rejecting the belles lettres book as text—the already coded, received, and ordered canonical tradition of books solidly implanted in libraries, fields of criticism, and pedagogical systems—Foucault ...
... philosophical traditions alike. Rejecting the belles lettres book as text—the already coded, received, and ordered canonical tradition of books solidly implanted in libraries, fields of criticism, and pedagogical systems—Foucault ...
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... philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and ...
... philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and ...
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... philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative to rationalist morality—something we might imagine as sexual experience released from its moral frame—is what I call Foucault's ethics of ...
... philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative to rationalist morality—something we might imagine as sexual experience released from its moral frame—is what I call Foucault's ethics of ...
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... philosophical and historical modes of thinking defines the split Foucault I love. The hate part comes in through the familiar story about Foucault's purported exclusion of women, what feminists have called Foucault's will not to know us ...
... philosophical and historical modes of thinking defines the split Foucault I love. The hate part comes in through the familiar story about Foucault's purported exclusion of women, what feminists have called Foucault's will not to know us ...
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... philosophical landscape: pale, unreal, and as uncertain as a dawn which holds both the promise of sunrise and the finality of an executioner's death. Indeed, another of Foucault's teachers, Louis Althusser, described Madness as a ...
... philosophical landscape: pale, unreal, and as uncertain as a dawn which holds both the promise of sunrise and the finality of an executioner's death. Indeed, another of Foucault's teachers, Louis Althusser, described Madness as a ...
Efni
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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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