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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 ix
... things, absolutely anything . . . is reading with love. —Gilles Deleuze, 1973 This book is a story about reading Michel Foucault, with love. When I started this project, I had been studying and teaching Foucault for a number of years ...
... things, absolutely anything . . . is reading with love. —Gilles Deleuze, 1973 This book is a story about reading Michel Foucault, with love. When I started this project, I had been studying and teaching Foucault for a number of years ...
Síða xvii
... thing we're clinging to is a stick of dynamite. This explosive force of ironic generosity repeats the description of the explosive force of the book-event in the 1972 preface. Reading this alternative ethics in Foucault brings together ...
... thing we're clinging to is a stick of dynamite. This explosive force of ironic generosity repeats the description of the explosive force of the book-event in the 1972 preface. Reading this alternative ethics in Foucault brings together ...
Síða 1
... thing in which it might just as easily have recognised itself—where it had in fact recognised itself in an oblique fashion? —Michel Foucault, 1964 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies —Emily Dickinson, 1890 ...
... thing in which it might just as easily have recognised itself—where it had in fact recognised itself in an oblique fashion? —Michel Foucault, 1964 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies —Emily Dickinson, 1890 ...
Síða 2
... things turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant, transformative turning: about turning adversity into new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting in the world. Like Foucault, I begin my ...
... things turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant, transformative turning: about turning adversity into new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting in the world. Like Foucault, I begin my ...
Síða 7
... things are never simple. For Foucault himself has contributed to the feminist-queer split with which my own splittings started. Further, his role in that split in relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a dimension that is at once ...
... things are never simple. For Foucault himself has contributed to the feminist-queer split with which my own splittings started. Further, his role in that split in relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a dimension that is at once ...
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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