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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... tragic presence of life and death—Eros and Thanatos—at the heart of all subjectivity. By the late eighteenth century, that tragic subjectivity had been masked by science in the capture of madness as mental illness. Within that ...
... tragic presence of life and death—Eros and Thanatos—at the heart of all subjectivity. By the late eighteenth century, that tragic subjectivity had been masked by science in the capture of madness as mental illness. Within that ...
Síða xvii
... tragic subjectivity we have lost. Rather, in its ironic mode, historical doubling always includes a force of destruction, unhappiness, and pain. As the constitutive element of Fou- cault's ethics, eros is driven not only by the force of ...
... tragic subjectivity we have lost. Rather, in its ironic mode, historical doubling always includes a force of destruction, unhappiness, and pain. As the constitutive element of Fou- cault's ethics, eros is driven not only by the force of ...
Síða 15
... tragic 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 ...
... tragic 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 ...
Síða 29
... tragic articulation is put into question by the ludic rupture of tragedy's depths. We can only read the lyrical language of tragedy in Madness in its doubled reflection as shattering irony, just as the depths of repressive power are ...
... tragic articulation is put into question by the ludic rupture of tragedy's depths. We can only read the lyrical language of tragedy in Madness in its doubled reflection as shattering irony, just as the depths of repressive power are ...
Síða 30
... tragic, deep, repressive dimension of Madness are missing Foucault's intervention into that binary logic. It is only by considering Foucault's interrogation of depth and interiority that we can grasp the significance of his early ...
... tragic, deep, repressive dimension of Madness are missing Foucault's intervention into that binary logic. It is only by considering Foucault's interrogation of depth and interiority that we can grasp the significance of his early ...
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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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