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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiv
... ethical and political language of Foucault's later work, in what Michel Feher calls Foucault's interest in “the potential for moral innovation and a politics of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through ...
... ethical and political language of Foucault's later work, in what Michel Feher calls Foucault's interest in “the potential for moral innovation and a politics of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through ...
Síða xv
... ethical experience whose condition of possibility was freedom. That project was his attempt to release sexuality as an ethical experience from its suturing to bourgeois categories of morality. In that context, Madness both explores how ...
... ethical experience whose condition of possibility was freedom. That project was his attempt to release sexuality as an ethical experience from its suturing to bourgeois categories of morality. In that context, Madness both explores how ...
Síða xvi
... ethical self-fashioning in relation to others might take place in a context that Foucault calls freedom. This ... ethical alternative to the philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative ...
... ethical self-fashioning in relation to others might take place in a context that Foucault calls freedom. This ... ethical alternative to the philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative ...
Síða xvii
... ethical rupture. Although never fully articulated here as a political theory, Madness offers the elements of an ethics that can speak to our queer political present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a ...
... ethical rupture. Although never fully articulated here as a political theory, Madness offers the elements of an ethics that can speak to our queer political present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a ...
Síða 30
... ethical frame. This brings us back to the Deleuzian approach to Foucault as a thinker of subjectivity as coextension. Why this is important specifically with regard to sexuality in Madness will be spelled out more fully in my ...
... ethical frame. This brings us back to the Deleuzian approach to Foucault as a thinker of subjectivity as coextension. Why this is important specifically with regard to sexuality in Madness will be spelled out more fully in my ...
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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