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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... thinking. These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's ...
... thinking. These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the despotic power of philosophical reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's ...
Síða xvii
... thinking queerly becomes not just a way of responding, from within Christianity, to the murderous exclusions of religious morality. It becomes a way of rethinking the despotic rationalism of a secular order whose effects are equally ...
... thinking queerly becomes not just a way of responding, from within Christianity, to the murderous exclusions of religious morality. It becomes a way of rethinking the despotic rationalism of a secular order whose effects are equally ...
Síða xxii
... thinking about gender and sexuality in Foucault. I am also grateful to my friend and colleague, Paul Kelleher, for his interest in my project and a shared, always happy, obsession with Foucault. Much of the first draft of this book was ...
... thinking about gender and sexuality in Foucault. I am also grateful to my friend and colleague, Paul Kelleher, for his interest in my project and a shared, always happy, obsession with Foucault. Much of the first draft of this book was ...
Síða 7
... thinking, to reshape thought itself, and to engage in that disruptive reconceptualization through considerations of concrete historical events. That tenuous but powerful straddling of philosophical and historical modes of thinking ...
... thinking, to reshape thought itself, and to engage in that disruptive reconceptualization through considerations of concrete historical events. That tenuous but powerful straddling of philosophical and historical modes of thinking ...
Síða 8
... Thinking Sex,” in a graduate women's studies seminar in 1987, taught by Sherry Ortner. Three years later, I found him again, in the work of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Ironically, given my subsequent feminist misgivings ...
... Thinking Sex,” in a graduate women's studies seminar in 1987, taught by Sherry Ortner. Three years later, I found him again, in the work of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Ironically, given my subsequent feminist misgivings ...
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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