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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... as a series of experiments for each reader in the midst of events that have nothing to do with books, as tearing the book into pieces, getting it to interact with other things, absolutely anything . . . is reading with love.
... as a series of experiments for each reader in the midst of events that have nothing to do with books, as tearing the book into pieces, getting it to interact with other things, absolutely anything . . . is reading with love.
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If erotic generosity makes us want to cling to its promise of transformative connection, the violent force of erotic irony reminds us that the thing we're clinging to is a stick ...
If erotic generosity makes us want to cling to its promise of transformative connection, the violent force of erotic irony reminds us that the thing we're clinging to is a stick ...
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Mad for foucault Why did Western culture expel to its extremities the very 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 ...
Mad for foucault Why did Western culture expel to its extremities the very 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 ...
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So if the etymological circuit—quer, obliquus, versus—threatens to bring us right back to where we started, the trick is to keep things turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant, ...
So if the etymological circuit—quer, obliquus, versus—threatens to bring us right back to where we started, the trick is to keep things turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant, ...
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But 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 ...
But 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 ...
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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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