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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 x
... present, postqueer age. This is not to erect Madness as a monument to Foucault, but rather to bear witness to its capacity to move us. Both the archival material and History of Madness tell a story of transformation grounded in a ...
... present, postqueer age. This is not to erect Madness as a monument to Foucault, but rather to bear witness to its capacity to move us. Both the archival material and History of Madness tell a story of transformation grounded in a ...
Síða xv
... present. Looking through the lens of Foucault's final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by asking the question Foucault posed in 1984 not long before his death ...
... present. Looking through the lens of Foucault's final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by asking the question Foucault posed in 1984 not long before his death ...
Síða xvii
... present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a preface, when in 1972 Foucault so adamantly denounces the form as “a declaration of tyranny” (M xxxviii) that allows the author to impose her own prefaCe xvii.
... present. A Postscript on Prefaces And why, one might ask, do I begin with a preface, when in 1972 Foucault so adamantly denounces the form as “a declaration of tyranny” (M xxxviii) that allows the author to impose her own prefaCe xvii.
Síða 11
... presents him, Barraqué may accurately be described as a first love, and one that allowed Foucault to go on living. In an undated letter quoted by Eribon, Foucault compares himself to Proust's Swann forever devoted to his cocotte lover ...
... presents him, Barraqué may accurately be described as a first love, and one that allowed Foucault to go on living. In an undated letter quoted by Eribon, Foucault compares himself to Proust's Swann forever devoted to his cocotte lover ...
Síða 19
... present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of reason and History. Thus to occupy that historical future, as we do, and, at the same time, to commit to opening a passage foreclosed by the very future we occupy is, indeed ...
... present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of reason and History. Thus to occupy that historical future, as we do, and, at the same time, to commit to opening a passage foreclosed by the very future we occupy is, indeed ...
Efni
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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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