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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... produce such a resolution would be to repeat the psychologizing gesture through which madness is mastered by a discourse of reason. In the 1961 preface, Foucault writes, “Having mastered his madness, and having freed it by capturing it ...
... produce such a resolution would be to repeat the psychologizing gesture through which madness is mastered by a discourse of reason. In the 1961 preface, Foucault writes, “Having mastered his madness, and having freed it by capturing it ...
Síða 20
... produce a new encounter—a happening, to borrow a term from Linda Hutcheon—to unsettle the object-event we call Foucault. Both lyricism and irony “happen” in my engagement with Foucault. And they happen most powerfully and specifically ...
... produce a new encounter—a happening, to borrow a term from Linda Hutcheon—to unsettle the object-event we call Foucault. Both lyricism and irony “happen” in my engagement with Foucault. And they happen most powerfully and specifically ...
Síða 33
... ridden structures that bind it. Linking Foucault to other examples of gay subjectivity and culture, Eribon performs an analysis of “the contemporary mechanisms of gay subjectivation” (xv) that produce both positive forms of introduction 33.
... ridden structures that bind it. Linking Foucault to other examples of gay subjectivity and culture, Eribon performs an analysis of “the contemporary mechanisms of gay subjectivation” (xv) that produce both positive forms of introduction 33.
Síða 34
... produce both positive forms of “cultural affiliation” (xv) and negative structures of “inferiorization” (xvi) linking homosexuality with shame. More positively, those mechanisms constitute, for Eribon, “the launching pad for a process ...
... produce both positive forms of “cultural affiliation” (xv) and negative structures of “inferiorization” (xvi) linking homosexuality with shame. More positively, those mechanisms constitute, for Eribon, “the launching pad for a process ...
Síða 36
... produces, out of Sexuality One, a sexuality from which the complexity of experience has been drained away. Sapped of what we might call the messy thickness of erotic life, Sexuality One gives us only the thin abstractions of a ...
... produces, out of Sexuality One, a sexuality from which the complexity of experience has been drained away. Sapped of what we might call the messy thickness of erotic life, Sexuality One gives us only the thin abstractions of a ...
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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