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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xvi
... relation to others might take place in a context that Foucault calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ... relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, of erotic connection but also of pain, the body reactivates the ...
... relation to others might take place in a context that Foucault calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ... relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, of erotic connection but also of pain, the body reactivates the ...
Síða xix
... relation that refuses to erase, in some happy resolution, the contradictory traces of their doubled construction. I've written this preface, then, to signal a postmodern, aporetic irony at the heart of Foucault's project. But if aporia ...
... relation that refuses to erase, in some happy resolution, the contradictory traces of their doubled construction. I've written this preface, then, to signal a postmodern, aporetic irony at the heart of Foucault's project. But if aporia ...
Síða 4
... relation to the reason from which it splits. In itself, it is nothing. Since in itself unreason is nothing, I make my entrée into this difficult material through the act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the fraught relation ...
... relation to the reason from which it splits. In itself, it is nothing. Since in itself unreason is nothing, I make my entrée into this difficult material through the act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the fraught relation ...
Síða 7
... relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a dimension that is at once personal, intellectual, and affective. As I mentioned earlier, I call that dimension my love-hate relation to Foucault. The love part stems from the aspects of ...
... relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a dimension that is at once personal, intellectual, and affective. As I mentioned earlier, I call that dimension my love-hate relation to Foucault. The love part stems from the aspects of ...
Síða 11
... relationship between author, executor-lover, and archive the contours of a desire forever thwarted, a striptease forever deferred. We, Foucault's readers, can only sit and wait for that far-off moment of future titillation. Still, I ...
... relationship between author, executor-lover, and archive the contours of a desire forever thwarted, a striptease forever deferred. We, Foucault's readers, can only sit and wait for that far-off moment of future titillation. Still, I ...
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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