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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... possibility was freedom. That project was his attempt to release sexuality as an ethical experience from its suturing to bourgeois categories of morality. In that context, Madness both explores how that suturing occurred and forges an ...
... possibility was freedom. That project was his attempt to release sexuality as an ethical experience from its suturing to bourgeois categories of morality. In that context, Madness both explores how that suturing occurred and forges an ...
Síða 7
... possibilities for human flourishing. For Foucault, in both his intellectual and activist work, “neither cultural or moral affinities, nor a community of interests, nor a similarity of experiences, nor a congruence of political projects ...
... possibilities for human flourishing. For Foucault, in both his intellectual and activist work, “neither cultural or moral affinities, nor a community of interests, nor a similarity of experiences, nor a congruence of political projects ...
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... possibilities for apprehending ourselves in history. This teleological production of the past, and of ourselves, as meaningful and coherent unities denies existence, as part of history, to the nonsensical, the inchoate, the obscure ...
... possibilities for apprehending ourselves in history. This teleological production of the past, and of ourselves, as meaningful and coherent unities denies existence, as part of history, to the nonsensical, the inchoate, the obscure ...
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... possibility of all thought. Rather than excluding madness, Derrida argues, Descartes radically universalizes it by comparing it with the sensory illusions of dreams. For Derrida, the structure of madness is allied with the structure of ...
... possibility of all thought. Rather than excluding madness, Derrida argues, Descartes radically universalizes it by comparing it with the sensory illusions of dreams. For Derrida, the structure of madness is allied with the structure of ...
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... possibility of thinking itself. This view of subjectivity is more radically unstable than what we tend to think of as the “socially constructed” subject, a sociological view where the subject is located within an outside we call its ...
... possibility of thinking itself. This view of subjectivity is more radically unstable than what we tend to think of as the “socially constructed” subject, a sociological view where the subject is located within an outside we call its ...
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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