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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiv
... structures of moral exclusion. We also miss the grounding of Foucault's devastating critique of psychoanalysis in that structure which links reason and science to moral exclusion. And, finally, we miss a crucial element—namely ...
... structures of moral exclusion. We also miss the grounding of Foucault's devastating critique of psychoanalysis in that structure which links reason and science to moral exclusion. And, finally, we miss a crucial element—namely ...
Síða 1
... structure of refusal . . . on the basis of which a discourse is denounced as not being a language [and] as having no rightful place in history. This structure is constitutive of what is sense and nonsense” (M xxxii). Just as reason ...
... structure of refusal . . . on the basis of which a discourse is denounced as not being a language [and] as having no rightful place in history. This structure is constitutive of what is sense and nonsense” (M xxxii). Just as reason ...
Síða 5
... structures of imprisonment. As a GIP member, Foucault participated in writing and distributing French materials about antiprison campaigns in the U.S. For example, GIP publicly denounced the 1971 murder of George Jackson in the San ...
... structures of imprisonment. As a GIP member, Foucault participated in writing and distributing French materials about antiprison campaigns in the U.S. For example, GIP publicly denounced the 1971 murder of George Jackson in the San ...
Síða 11
... structure of a secret, and a specifically sexual one at that. We have access only to a title whose words literally signal a promised revelation of flesh. Defert's stubborn gesture of withholding the volume itself gives the entire ...
... structure of a secret, and a specifically sexual one at that. We have access only to a title whose words literally signal a promised revelation of flesh. Defert's stubborn gesture of withholding the volume itself gives the entire ...
Síða 15
... structure” (M xxix). It was this rediscovery of the “tragic structure” of light and dark that took the form of Foucault's first major book, History of Madness, written in the late 1950s. Placing the Barraqué correspondence in dialogue ...
... structure” (M xxix). It was this rediscovery of the “tragic structure” of light and dark that took the form of Foucault's first major book, History of Madness, written in the late 1950s. Placing the Barraqué correspondence in dialogue ...
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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