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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Síða xii
... put it. Although pleased with a popular edition of Madness, Foucault was disappointed that this abridged version became the standard edition of the book. Not only was the French public likely to read an incomplete book but, with the ...
... put it. Although pleased with a popular edition of Madness, Foucault was disappointed that this abridged version became the standard edition of the book. Not only was the French public likely to read an incomplete book but, with the ...
Síða xiv
... puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and unreason in the Age of Reason constitutes an analysis of ...
... puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and unreason in the Age of Reason constitutes an analysis of ...
Síða xvi
... puts it in the 1961 preface: “Any perception that aims to apprehend [those insane words] in their wild state necessarily belongs to a world that has captured them already” (M xxxii). Thus the historical objectification by the Age of ...
... puts it in the 1961 preface: “Any perception that aims to apprehend [those insane words] in their wild state necessarily belongs to a world that has captured them already” (M xxxii). Thus the historical objectification by the Age of ...
Síða xviii
... puts it in Madness, one that destabilizes the certainty of the self-identical authorial subject's declaration of freedom from an ancien régime: “Then remove the old one [l'ancienne]” (M xxxix/F10; translation modified). As we will see ...
... puts it in Madness, one that destabilizes the certainty of the self-identical authorial subject's declaration of freedom from an ancien régime: “Then remove the old one [l'ancienne]” (M xxxix/F10; translation modified). As we will see ...
Síða xxi
... put it, into the series of events to which it belongs. First and foremost, I want to thank my dear friends Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon, both of whom read much of the manuscript in its multiple versions. It was Jonathan and ...
... put it, into the series of events to which it belongs. First and foremost, I want to thank my dear friends Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon, both of whom read much of the manuscript in its multiple versions. It was Jonathan and ...
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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