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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Like most feminists with an interest in queer theory, I had not paid much attention to Madness, focusing instead on the first volume of the History of Sexuality (1976) for an understanding of sex and sexuality in Foucault.3 ...
Like most feminists with an interest in queer theory, I had not paid much attention to Madness, focusing instead on the first volume of the History of Sexuality (1976) for an understanding of sex and sexuality in Foucault.3 ...
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Taking seriously the status of Foucault's writings as objectevents, I focus primarily on Madness as one of the great ... I also include in my considerations the last two published volumes of History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and ...
Taking seriously the status of Foucault's writings as objectevents, I focus primarily on Madness as one of the great ... I also include in my considerations the last two published volumes of History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and ...
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These concepts of event and doubling, gleaned from the 1972 preface, have opened a passage, belatedly and retrospectively, into my reinterpretation of History of Madness in the context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the ...
These concepts of event and doubling, gleaned from the 1972 preface, have opened a passage, belatedly and retrospectively, into my reinterpretation of History of Madness in the context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the ...
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This explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, that was published in 1965. At 230 pages, the book was about one-third the length ...
This explains the severely abridged English translation by Richard Howard, entitled Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, that was published in 1965. At 230 pages, the book was about one-third the length ...
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To read Foucault on sexuality without reading History of Madness is to miss a crucial dimension of sexuality in Foucault. Finally, and more specifically, if we ignore Madness, we miss Foucault's early, radical thinking about ethics.
To read Foucault on sexuality without reading History of Madness is to miss a crucial dimension of sexuality in Foucault. Finally, and more specifically, if we ignore Madness, we miss Foucault's early, radical thinking about ethics.
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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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