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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Síða vii
... Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 235 Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros 242 Postlude: A Fool's Laughter 279 Notes 281 Works Cited 313 Index 325 Why We need Madness To shake off philosophy necessarily implies. Contents. Contents.
... Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 235 Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros 242 Postlude: A Fool's Laughter 279 Notes 281 Works Cited 313 Index 325 Why We need Madness To shake off philosophy necessarily implies. Contents. Contents.
Síða xi
... political pamphlets, and transcriptions of his courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and interviews, I hope to productively unravel some of the blind spots and dogmas of ...
... political pamphlets, and transcriptions of his courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and interviews, I hope to productively unravel some of the blind spots and dogmas of ...
Síða xii
... political dimension of the book as object-event. As just one moment in a repetitive “bringing to light of 'ruptures of evidence,'” the book as event “takes its place in an incessant game of repetitions” (M xxxvii). These doublings, in ...
... political dimension of the book as object-event. As just one moment in a repetitive “bringing to light of 'ruptures of evidence,'” the book as event “takes its place in an incessant game of repetitions” (M xxxvii). These doublings, in ...
Síða xiv
... political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of 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 ...
... political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of 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 ...
Síða xvii
... political theory, Madness offers the elements of an ethics that can speak to our queer political present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a preface, when in 1972 Foucault so adamantly denounces the form ...
... political theory, Madness offers the elements of an ethics that can speak to our queer political present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a preface, when in 1972 Foucault so adamantly denounces the form ...
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 |
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