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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xii
... movement of repetition, fragmentation, copying, reflection, and simulation, the book disappears in this other sense, into the infinite proliferation of its doubles as truth. What remains of the book are these truth-effects in the world ...
... movement of repetition, fragmentation, copying, reflection, and simulation, the book disappears in this other sense, into the infinite proliferation of its doubles as truth. What remains of the book are these truth-effects in the world ...
Síða 2
... movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a nonpsychoanalytic perspective. I have circled around the subject of ...
... movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a nonpsychoanalytic perspective. I have circled around the subject of ...
Síða 5
... movement, Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP, 1970–72), Foucault was part of a transnational movement against modern structures of imprisonment. As a GIP member, Foucault participated in writing and distributing French materials ...
... movement, Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP, 1970–72), Foucault was part of a transnational movement against modern structures of imprisonment. As a GIP member, Foucault participated in writing and distributing French materials ...
Síða 6
... movement to the attention of the French public.5 Despite the racial dimension of GIP's analysis of the prison system, in the book Foucault wrote following the group's dissolution in 1972, Discipline and Punish (1975), the traces of that ...
... movement to the attention of the French public.5 Despite the racial dimension of GIP's analysis of the prison system, in the book Foucault wrote following the group's dissolution in 1972, Discipline and Punish (1975), the traces of that ...
Síða 20
... movement of a dialogic voice caught between lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se as the voice of transgression or transformation. Rather, I bring out Foucault's lyricism, along with his irony ...
... movement of a dialogic voice caught between lyricism and irony, tragedy and comedy. I do not make a claim for either per se as the voice of transgression or transformation. Rather, I bring out Foucault's lyricism, along with his irony ...
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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