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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... splitting in the Age of Reason was Foucault's way of getting out from under philosophy's despotic moralizing power. This is not to deny the suggestive value of Foucault's pre-Christian approach to ethics in Sexuality Two and Three ...
... splitting in the Age of Reason was Foucault's way of getting out from under philosophy's despotic moralizing power. This is not to deny the suggestive value of Foucault's pre-Christian approach to ethics in Sexuality Two and Three ...
Síða xviii
... splits and doubles the singularity of the narrative “I.” Suddenly, at the end, two voices emerge to mock the entire ... split in the 2006 English translation, where we can read both the suppressed 1961 preface and the new 1972 version ...
... splits and doubles the singularity of the narrative “I.” Suddenly, at the end, two voices emerge to mock the entire ... split in the 2006 English translation, where we can read both the suppressed 1961 preface and the new 1972 version ...
Síða xix
... split may not be dialectical, but that doesn't mean there's no passage at all. Indeed, finding a passage—“giving the mad a language”13—is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness. And finding a passage—a way through the thicket, a ...
... split may not be dialectical, but that doesn't mean there's no passage at all. Indeed, finding a passage—“giving the mad a language”13—is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness. And finding a passage—a way through the thicket, a ...
Síða 1
... Splitting: A Love Story The story of queerness—as a story about madness—begins with the story of a split: the great division between reason and unreason. That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of ...
... Splitting: A Love Story The story of queerness—as a story about madness—begins with the story of a split: the great division between reason and unreason. That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of ...
Síða 2
... splitting—and split subjectivity—from a nonpsychoanalytic perspective. I have circled around the subject of splitting, the split subject, for many years, often heading off in strange directions trying to find my way through the thicket ...
... splitting—and split subjectivity—from a nonpsychoanalytic perspective. I have circled around the subject of splitting, the split subject, for many years, often heading off in strange directions trying to find my way through the thicket ...
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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