Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryMichel 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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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He did this, primarily, in his minute dissection of the technologies of the self that, in the Greco-Roman and early Christian worlds, constituted sexuality as an ethical experience whose condition of possibility was freedom.
He did this, primarily, in his minute dissection of the technologies of the self that, in the Greco-Roman and early Christian worlds, constituted sexuality as an ethical experience whose condition of possibility was freedom.
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... called by her presence to acknowledge what Foucault describes as “a certain common difficulty in bearing what happens”9 and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing.
... called by her presence to acknowledge what Foucault describes as “a certain common difficulty in bearing what happens”9 and to develop strategies for transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing.
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... in our habitual, retrospective reading of history as a teleological story, we imbue the events of the past with meanings that shut down other, nonteleological possibilities for apprehending ourselves in history.
... in our habitual, retrospective reading of history as a teleological story, we imbue the events of the past with meanings that shut down other, nonteleological possibilities for apprehending ourselves in history.
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For Derrida, Descartes lends himself to an internal reading of a metaphysical structure that establishes the conditions of possibility of all thought. Rather than excluding madness, Derrida argues, Descartes radically universalizes it ...
For Derrida, Descartes lends himself to an internal reading of a metaphysical structure that establishes the conditions of possibility of all thought. Rather than excluding madness, Derrida argues, Descartes radically universalizes it ...
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In that sense, the inside of the subject doesn't exist as such; the subject is coincident—in space, time, and scope—with an outside that is both a function of thinking and the condition of possibility of thinking itself.
In that sense, the inside of the subject doesn't exist as such; the subject is coincident—in space, time, and scope—with an outside that is both a function of thinking and the condition of possibility of thinking itself.
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| 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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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Gender and Culture Series |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0231520514, 9780231520515 |
| Length | 304 síður |
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