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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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This is, in fact, what Foucault saw after writing the still unpublished fourth volume of History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh, about the Christian period, the practices of confession, and the beginnings of the discursive ...
This is, in fact, what Foucault saw after writing the still unpublished fourth volume of History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh, about the Christian period, the practices of confession, and the beginnings of the discursive ...
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As he says in the 1975 interview with Roger-Pol Droit, Sartre associates the practice of historians with a totalizing “grand feeling” of history oriented and articulated by a human consciousness which is both the product and reflection ...
As he says in the 1975 interview with Roger-Pol Droit, Sartre associates the practice of historians with a totalizing “grand feeling” of history oriented and articulated by a human consciousness which is both the product and reflection ...
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... French reedition of History of Madness—slams Derrida for reducing “discursive practices” to “textual traces” for his “little pedagogy, ... through the institutional practice of confinement of the mad in seventeenth-century Europe.
... French reedition of History of Madness—slams Derrida for reducing “discursive practices” to “textual traces” for his “little pedagogy, ... through the institutional practice of confinement of the mad in seventeenth-century Europe.
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institutional practice of confinement of the mad in seventeenth-century Europe. Thus the rationale and practices of exclusion and confinement he describes in Madness are not simply textual or linguistic structures but the result of ...
institutional practice of confinement of the mad in seventeenth-century Europe. Thus the rationale and practices of exclusion and confinement he describes in Madness are not simply textual or linguistic structures but the result of ...
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That perspective views social and political change as the result of successive, strategic contestatory practices, not as the result of the massive, totalized overturning of entire societies contained in the concept of revolution.
That perspective views social and political change as the result of successive, strategic contestatory practices, not as the result of the massive, totalized overturning of entire societies contained in the concept of revolution.
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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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