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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... emergence of queer theory, I insist on Madness's importance for our present, postqueer age. This is not to erect Madness as a monument to Foucault, but rather to bear witness to its capacity to move us. Both the archival material and ...
... emergence of queer theory, I insist on Madness's importance for our present, postqueer age. This is not to erect Madness as a monument to Foucault, but rather to bear witness to its capacity to move us. Both the archival material and ...
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... emerge to mock the entire enterprise: When I was asked to write a new preface for this book . . . I could only ... emergence of the two prefaces together in 2006 mirrors the doubled voice that emerged at the end of the 1972 preface ...
... emerge to mock the entire enterprise: When I was asked to write a new preface for this book . . . I could only ... emergence of the two prefaces together in 2006 mirrors the doubled voice that emerged at the end of the 1972 preface ...
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... emerge here around a configuration of terms, including queer and feminist, theorist and activist, French and American, hate and love. Oddly, perhaps, I get at these splits—try to work through them nonpsychoanalytically—by using Foucault ...
... emerge here around a configuration of terms, including queer and feminist, theorist and activist, French and American, hate and love. Oddly, perhaps, I get at these splits—try to work through them nonpsychoanalytically—by using Foucault ...
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... emerge in my approach to Foucault through the lens of History of Madness: the opposition between the 1961 and 1972 prefaces, the redoubling of Madness's exploration of sexuality in Sexuality One, and the play between the published and ...
... emerge in my approach to Foucault through the lens of History of Madness: the opposition between the 1961 and 1972 prefaces, the redoubling of Madness's exploration of sexuality in Sexuality One, and the play between the published and ...
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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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| 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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