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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 vii
... 194 Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 235 Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros 242 Postlude: A Fool's Laughter 279 WHY WE NEED MADNESS To shake off philosophy necessarily implies. Notes 281 Works Cited 313 Index 325. Contents. Contents.
... 194 Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 235 Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros 242 Postlude: A Fool's Laughter 279 WHY WE NEED MADNESS To shake off philosophy necessarily implies. Notes 281 Works Cited 313 Index 325. Contents. Contents.
Síða x
... 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 encounter with Madness is strik- ingly similar to what ...
... 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 encounter with Madness is strik- ingly similar to what ...
Síða xv
... eros for engaging the difference of sexual unreason. Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault returned to his earlier interest in the problem of sexuality ...
... eros for engaging the difference of sexual unreason. Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault returned to his earlier interest in the problem of sexuality ...
Síða xvi
... eros. This ethics of eros is situated in a trajectory of thought that confronts the Cartesian mind-body dualism with an insistence on the role the body plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, of ...
... eros. This ethics of eros is situated in a trajectory of thought that confronts the Cartesian mind-body dualism with an insistence on the role the body plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, of ...
Síða xvii
... eros is driven not only by the force of an intersubjective generosity but by a force of ironic undoing as well. Eros indeed contains its opposite, Thanatos, just as reason, for Foucault, is inhabited by its opposite, unreason. As the ...
... eros is driven not only by the force of an intersubjective generosity but by a force of ironic undoing as well. Eros indeed contains its opposite, Thanatos, just as reason, for Foucault, is inhabited by its opposite, unreason. As the ...
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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