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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xi
... courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and interviews, I hope to productively unravel some of the blind spots and dogmas of contemporary queer theory. Foucault's description of the ...
... courses at the Collège de France. In engaging Madness and these other more peripheral writings and interviews, I hope to productively unravel some of the blind spots and dogmas of contemporary queer theory. Foucault's description of the ...
Síða xiv
... course of his life, Madness clearly lays the foundations for certain constants in Foucault's thinking. These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the ...
... course of his life, Madness clearly lays the foundations for certain constants in Foucault's thinking. These include, most importantly, Foucault's sustained critique of moral and political exclusion and his lifelong challenge to the ...
Síða xv
... courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault returned to his earlier interest in the problem of sexuality as a problem of experience. He did this, primarily, in his minute dissection of the technologies of ...
... courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault returned to his earlier interest in the problem of sexuality as a problem of experience. He did this, primarily, in his minute dissection of the technologies of ...
Síða xviii
... course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an intention on the book one has written. Foucault faces this difficulty when he is asked to write a new preface ...
... course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an intention on the book one has written. Foucault faces this difficulty when he is asked to write a new preface ...
Síða xxii
... course and especially to Mark for what I will always remember as a singular event that took us far beyond the bounds of the seminar genre into an experience I can only describe as poetic. I know it taught me to think and feel ...
... course and especially to Mark for what I will always remember as a singular event that took us far beyond the bounds of the seminar genre into an experience I can only describe as poetic. I know it taught me to think and feel ...
Efni
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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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