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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, of erotic connection but also of pain, the body reactivates the tragic dimension of subjectivity, the fact of our life and our annihilation in the body's ...
... plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, of erotic connection but also of pain, the body reactivates the tragic dimension of subjectivity, the fact of our life and our annihilation in the body's ...
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... play. Ultimately, what drives Foucault-the-intellectual and Foucault-the-activist is what Michel Feher calls “a shared intolerance with regard to a particular situation.”11 So already Foucault helps with these splits within splits: the ...
... play. Ultimately, what drives Foucault-the-intellectual and Foucault-the-activist is what Michel Feher calls “a shared intolerance with regard to a particular situation.”11 So already Foucault helps with these splits within splits: the ...
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... played.” How, I wondered as I pushed the buzzer, did Foucault's love letters manage to find their perfect resting ... play on the edge of reason and unreason. How fitting, I mused as I mounted the stairs, that the epistolary traces of ...
... played.” How, I wondered as I pushed the buzzer, did Foucault's love letters manage to find their perfect resting ... play on the edge of reason and unreason. How fitting, I mused as I mounted the stairs, that the epistolary traces of ...
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... play of the materials themselves—both archival and published, personal and not— that inform my engagement with Foucault. The interludes remind us that history is not History, with a capital H. The past cannot be captured as a singular ...
... play of the materials themselves—both archival and published, personal and not— that inform my engagement with Foucault. The interludes remind us that history is not History, with a capital H. The past cannot be captured as a singular ...
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... to the rest of Foucault's work: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.” Although it makes my head spin, this place of aporetic 20 introduction.
... to the rest of Foucault's work: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.” Although it makes my head spin, this place of aporetic 20 introduction.
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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