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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 in-between is the space and time of the division itself: the subject in the act of splitting. Specifically, the splits emerge here around a configuration of terms, including queer and feminist, theorist and activist, ...
This in-between is the space and time of the division itself: the subject in the act of splitting. Specifically, the splits emerge here around a configuration of terms, including queer and feminist, theorist and activist, ...
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Still an antiracist feminist but also queer, I have remained there ever since, in that threshold space where those positions come together but also split. The splitting gets worse. For within each of these categories, other splits ...
Still an antiracist feminist but also queer, I have remained there ever since, in that threshold space where those positions come together but also split. The splitting gets worse. For within each of these categories, other splits ...
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Sometimes, at night, in my narrow bed pushed up against the wall, I find you again: I enter that space, deliciously contracted, of body against body. I am pressed by you like a flower against paper. Hearing only your silence, ...
Sometimes, at night, in my narrow bed pushed up against the wall, I find you again: I enter that space, deliciously contracted, of body against body. I am pressed by you like a flower against paper. Hearing only your silence, ...
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I met him again, in 2006, in that liminal space that marks the split between the work and its unpublished remains, a split that is itself in a constant process of transformation with the ongoing production of published volumes of ...
I met him again, in 2006, in that liminal space that marks the split between the work and its unpublished remains, a split that is itself in a constant process of transformation with the ongoing production of published volumes of ...
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These forces inhabit what Winnubst calls a Foucauldian “space of endless contestation”: “the site in which discourses shape themselves, a site of conflict, violence, disruption, discontinuity, struggle, contest, and endless movements.
These forces inhabit what Winnubst calls a Foucauldian “space of endless contestation”: “the site in which discourses shape themselves, a site of conflict, violence, disruption, discontinuity, struggle, contest, and endless movements.
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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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