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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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This ethics of eros is situated in a trajectory of thought that confronts the Cartesian mind-body dualism with an insistence on the role the body plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, ...
This ethics of eros is situated in a trajectory of thought that confronts the Cartesian mind-body dualism with an insistence on the role the body plays in intersubjective relations. As a site of pleasure but also of death, ...
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... nor a congruence of political projects . . . assures the coherence or legitimacy of a resistance,”10 although any of these elements can have a role to play. Ultimately, what drives Foucault-the-intellectual and Foucault-the-activist ...
... nor a congruence of political projects . . . assures the coherence or legitimacy of a resistance,”10 although any of these elements can have a role to play. Ultimately, what drives Foucault-the-intellectual and Foucault-the-activist ...
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Funny, I thought, Foucault opens Madness with an epigraph from Pascal: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.” How, I wondered as I pushed the buzzer, ...
Funny, I thought, Foucault opens Madness with an epigraph from Pascal: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.” How, I wondered as I pushed the buzzer, ...
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Indeed, the juxtaposition of philosophical, historical, and personal voices in this book reflects the polyphonic play of the materials themselves—both archival and published, ...
Indeed, the juxtaposition of philosophical, historical, and personal voices in this book reflects the polyphonic play of the materials themselves—both archival and published, ...
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... to the first preface of Foucault's first book—constitutes the vertiginous opening to the rest of Foucault's work: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.
... to the first preface of Foucault's first book—constitutes the vertiginous opening to the rest of Foucault's work: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.
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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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