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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... transformed my hot - and - cold feelings . Suddenly I burned with passion . My archival encounter was nothing less than an experience of rupture : I was , like Deleuze's book , torn to pieces . Returning home to Atlanta , I gathered the ...
... transformed my hot - and - cold feelings . Suddenly I burned with passion . My archival encounter was nothing less than an experience of rupture : I was , like Deleuze's book , torn to pieces . Returning home to Atlanta , I gathered the ...
Síða x
... transformation grounded in a specifically Foucauldian eros. This singular, life-affirming eros offers us resources for an ethics of living in the biopolitical world of the twenty- first century. My own singularly strange, intensive ...
... transformation grounded in a specifically Foucauldian eros. This singular, life-affirming eros offers us resources for an ethics of living in the biopolitical world of the twenty- first century. My own singularly strange, intensive ...
Síða xxi
... transformation of a gut feeling into a book: an object to be released, as Foucault would put it, into the series of events to which it belongs. First and foremost, I want to thank my dear friends Jonathan Gold- berg and Michael Moon ...
... transformation of a gut feeling into a book: an object to be released, as Foucault would put it, into the series of events to which it belongs. First and foremost, I want to thank my dear friends Jonathan Gold- berg and Michael Moon ...
Síða 1
... transformation itself is to be celebrated, the final freezing is not. Getting stuck in identities that are often politically or medically engineered, the queer is drained of her transformative, contestatory power. This is where History ...
... transformation itself is to be celebrated, the final freezing is not. Getting stuck in identities that are often politically or medically engineered, the queer is drained of her transformative, contestatory power. This is where History ...
Síða 7
... transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing . For Foucault , in both his intellec- tual and activist work , " neither cultural or moral affinities , nor a com- munity of interests , nor a similarity of ...
... transforming that difficulty into possibilities for human flourishing . For Foucault , in both his intellec- tual and activist work , " neither cultural or moral affinities , nor a com- munity of interests , nor a similarity of ...
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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