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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xviii
... limits of my enterprise, I mean to set a boundary for your freedom” (M xxxviii). Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an ...
... limits of my enterprise, I mean to set a boundary for your freedom” (M xxxviii). Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid imposing an ...
Síða 12
... limit—the infinitely small and the infinitely large—Foucault and Pascal both liked to play on the edge of reason and unreason. How fitting, I mused as I mounted the stairs, that the epistolary traces of Foucault's first coup de foudre ...
... limit—the infinitely small and the infinitely large—Foucault and Pascal both liked to play on the edge of reason and unreason. How fitting, I mused as I mounted the stairs, that the epistolary traces of Foucault's first coup de foudre ...
Síða 15
... limit—that self-perpetuating history or story (histoire) called reason. Interludes function like those limits or ruptures that Foucault describes, again in the 1961 preface, as “those obscure gestures, necessarily forgotten as soon as ...
... limit—that self-perpetuating history or story (histoire) called reason. Interludes function like those limits or ruptures that Foucault describes, again in the 1961 preface, as “those obscure gestures, necessarily forgotten as soon as ...
Síða 17
... limits of Hegelian dialectical thinking for any attempt to make sense of this “charred root of meaning” that I'm implicitly linking with Foucault's “personal” story. Earlier I cited Foucault's 1964 essay, “Madness, the Absence of an ...
... limits of Hegelian dialectical thinking for any attempt to make sense of this “charred root of meaning” that I'm implicitly linking with Foucault's “personal” story. Earlier I cited Foucault's 1964 essay, “Madness, the Absence of an ...
Síða 22
... limits of an author's “work”: Even when an individual has been accepted as an author, we must still ask whether everything that he wrote, said, or left behind is part of his work. The problem is both theoretical and technical. When ...
... limits of an author's “work”: Even when an individual has been accepted as an author, we must still ask whether everything that he wrote, said, or left behind is part of his work. The problem is both theoretical and technical. When ...
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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