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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiii
... critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There is no denying the importance of this translation-event; for the first time, English speakers have access to the pivotal arguments that established ...
... critical annexes with supporting historical documents and bibliographic material.9 There is no denying the importance of this translation-event; for the first time, English speakers have access to the pivotal arguments that established ...
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... critical context that includes myriad responses to Foucault. My purpose here is not to reproduce an exhaus- tive overview of those responses to Madness. Others have done so, and interested readers can consult those works which are ...
... critical context that includes myriad responses to Foucault. My purpose here is not to reproduce an exhaus- tive overview of those responses to Madness. Others have done so, and interested readers can consult those works which are ...
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... critical responses both to the book and to Foucault in general . Spe- cifically , with the exception of Eribon , those readers of Foucault who have paid attention to Madness have completely missed the significance of its sexual ...
... critical responses both to the book and to Foucault in general . Spe- cifically , with the exception of Eribon , those readers of Foucault who have paid attention to Madness have completely missed the significance of its sexual ...
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... critical even as early as 1961 when Mad- ness was published. As Michel Feher explains, that moment was domi- nated by a crossing of Marxist and psychoanalytic fields of thought represented, on the one hand, by Herbert Marcuse and, on ...
... critical even as early as 1961 when Mad- ness was published. As Michel Feher explains, that moment was domi- nated by a crossing of Marxist and psychoanalytic fields of thought represented, on the one hand, by Herbert Marcuse and, on ...
Síða 33
... critical erasure of sexuality in Madness is, as I've mentioned, Eribon's Insult and the Making of the Gay Self.64 Not surprisingly, Eribon writes from a French perspective and as one with a deep and long-standing knowledge of the life ...
... critical erasure of sexuality in Madness is, as I've mentioned, Eribon's Insult and the Making of the Gay Self.64 Not surprisingly, Eribon writes from a French perspective and as one with a deep and long-standing knowledge of the life ...
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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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