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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 psychologiz- ing gesture through which madness is mastered by a discourse of reason. In the 1961 preface, Foucault writes, “Having mastered his mad- ness, and having freed it by capturing ...
... produce such a resolution would be to repeat the psychologiz- ing gesture through which madness is mastered by a discourse of reason. In the 1961 preface, Foucault writes, “Having mastered his mad- ness, and having freed it by capturing ...
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... 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 ...
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... -ridden struc- tures that bind it. Linking Foucault to other examples of gay subjectivity and culture, Eribon performs an analysis of “the contemporary mecha- nisms of gay subjectivation " ( xv ) that produce introduction 33.
... -ridden struc- tures that bind it. Linking Foucault to other examples of gay subjectivity and culture, Eribon performs an analysis of “the contemporary mecha- nisms of gay subjectivation " ( xv ) that produce 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 ...
... 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 ...
Síða 36
... produced the odd, distorted, infamously ungraspable conception of sexuality that has become the common fare of queer theory. As I will argue at greater length in later chapters, the erasure of Madness from queer theory produces, out of ...
... produced the odd, distorted, infamously ungraspable conception of sexuality that has become the common fare of queer theory. As I will argue at greater length in later chapters, the erasure of Madness from queer theory produces, out of ...
Efni
| 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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