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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
From inside the book
Niðurstöður 1 - 5 af 81
Síða x
... 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 criti- cism, 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 criti- cism, and pedagogical systems—Foucault ...
Síða xiv
... 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 ...
Síða xvi
... philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular rea- son. 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 rea- son. 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 ...
Síða 15
... philosophical land- scape : 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 ...
... philosophical land- scape : 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 ...
Síða 16
... philosophical argument. My goal in the interludes is to allow the personal voice—one that both “belongs to no one else” and is “no longer my possession”23—to become part of the fabric of Foucault's queer madness. Indeed, the ...
... philosophical argument. My goal in the interludes is to allow the personal voice—one that both “belongs to no one else” and is “no longer my possession”23—to become part of the fabric of Foucault's queer madness. Indeed, the ...
Efni
| 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 |
Aðrar útgáfur - View all
Common terms and phrases
Age of Reason archive argue Barraqué becomes biopolitical biopower bourgeois Butler Cartesian cault century chapter coextension cogito conception confinement constitutes context critique Deleuze Deleuzian Derrida Descartes desubjectivation dialectical Diderot discursive Droit emergence emphasis added Eribon eros erotic ethics of eros exclusion experience feminism feminist figure Foucauldian Foucault calls Foucault describes Foucault puts Foucault writes Foucault's ethical freedom French Freud Freudian Genealogy Genealogy of Morals gesture Hegel Hegelian Hermeneutics heterotopian History of Madness homosexual Ibid identity insists interiority ironic irony language limit lives lyricism Madness’s Michel Foucault modern moral movement ness Nietzsche Nietzschean paradoxically passage perspective philosophical political practice preface produces psyche psychic psychoanalysis queer theory question Rameau's Nephew rationalist reading reason and unreason relation repressive rupture Sedgwick sense sexual subject shame ship of fools space speak specifically split story structure subjectivation sublated theory’s thinking tion tragic transformation translation modified undoing