Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryMichel 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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 ix
When I started this project, I had been studying and teaching Foucault for a number of years, but had never committed myself to writing about him. This half-hearted commitment was due, in part, to my intense ambivalence about ...
When I started this project, I had been studying and teaching Foucault for a number of years, but had never committed myself to writing about him. This half-hearted commitment was due, in part, to my intense ambivalence about ...
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Madness and Civilization was widely distributed to an American audience that had, for the most part, never heard Foucault's name before. And, although the book had a considerable impact on American readers, it was not subsequently ...
Madness and Civilization was widely distributed to an American audience that had, for the most part, never heard Foucault's name before. And, although the book had a considerable impact on American readers, it was not subsequently ...
Síða xvii
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 preface, ...
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 preface, ...
Síða xxi
It unfolded in ways I had never imagined, and even after the process of writing had ended I felt I was being pulled by a tide of others. There was something fierce in that pull. I want to acknowledge here some of those who gave the pull ...
It unfolded in ways I had never imagined, and even after the process of writing had ended I felt I was being pulled by a tide of others. There was something fierce in that pull. I want to acknowledge here some of those who gave the pull ...
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But things are never simple. For Foucault himself has contributed to the feminist-queer split with which my own splittings started. Further, his role in that split in relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a dimension that is at ...
But things are never simple. For Foucault himself has contributed to the feminist-queer split with which my own splittings started. Further, his role in that split in relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a dimension that is at ...
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| 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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