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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... positions. When we don't read Madness, we miss an important story about sexuality that links the apotheosis of reason and the objectifying gaze of science with what Foucault called bourgeois structures of moral exclusion. We also miss ...
... positions. When we don't read Madness, we miss an important story about sexuality that links the apotheosis of reason and the objectifying gaze of science with what Foucault called bourgeois structures of moral exclusion. We also miss ...
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... positions come together but also split. The splitting gets worse. For within each of these categories, other splits appear. A big one for me—a crack as deep as the San Andreas fault—is the split between my political activist self and ...
... positions come together but also split. The splitting gets worse. For within each of these categories, other splits appear. A big one for me—a crack as deep as the San Andreas fault—is the split between my political activist self and ...
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... position: to be mad. But that impossible, queer position—the position of madness—is also, politically, the one we must hold. It is a position that refuses many of the terms according to which our own present has been constructed by a ...
... position: to be mad. But that impossible, queer position—the position of madness—is also, politically, the one we must hold. It is a position that refuses many of the terms according to which our own present has been constructed by a ...
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... position of irony. But that irony cannot be the “final word,” since to stop there would be to construct another position of mastery. Thus the force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but ...
... position of irony. But that irony cannot be the “final word,” since to stop there would be to construct another position of mastery. Thus the force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but ...
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... position occupied by unreason: it is the interruption of the knowingness of reason. And it is precisely that rupture of reason that characterizes the third experience—that of an erotic, nonphilosophical, coup de foudre encounter that is ...
... position occupied by unreason: it is the interruption of the knowingness of reason. And it is precisely that rupture of reason that characterizes the third experience—that of an erotic, nonphilosophical, coup de foudre encounter that is ...
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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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