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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... gives a thicker, experiential texture to its subject than Sexuality One. Significantly, Foucault's “archeology” (M 80) of a vast field of unreason uncovers an array of figures of sexual alterity, including not only homosexuals, but ...
... gives a thicker, experiential texture to its subject than Sexuality One. Significantly, Foucault's “archeology” (M 80) of a vast field of unreason uncovers an array of figures of sexual alterity, including not only homosexuals, but ...
Síða xxii
... give. The writing of later drafts of the manuscript was undertaken during three residencies at the Hambidge Center in the north Georgia mountains during the summers of 2007 and 2008 and for a short week in December 2007. I am grateful ...
... give. The writing of later drafts of the manuscript was undertaken during three residencies at the Hambidge Center in the north Georgia mountains during the summers of 2007 and 2008 and for a short week in December 2007. I am grateful ...
Síða 2
... gives us perverse, perverted, pervert. The danger of the queer is that it can easily be re-turned against us: we can be recaptured and pinned down again in our perversions and our genders. So if the etymological circuit—quer, obliquus ...
... gives us perverse, perverted, pervert. The danger of the queer is that it can easily be re-turned against us: we can be recaptured and pinned down again in our perversions and our genders. So if the etymological circuit—quer, obliquus ...
Síða 10
... Beaubourg in Paris in September, after my two-week stint with Foucault in the archives. Didier graciously agreed to spend an evening with me, to clear up some biographical questions I had, and to give me his insights into 10 introduction.
... Beaubourg in Paris in September, after my two-week stint with Foucault in the archives. Didier graciously agreed to spend an evening with me, to clear up some biographical questions I had, and to give me his insights into 10 introduction.
Síða 11
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. questions I had, and to give me his insights into the reasons ... gives the entire relationship between author, executor-lover, and archive the contours of a desire forever thwarted ...
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. questions I had, and to give me his insights into the reasons ... gives the entire relationship between author, executor-lover, and archive the contours of a desire forever thwarted ...
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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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