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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 is where History of Madness can help us, as the story of a split that produced the queer. Not only a diagnosis of the great division between reason and unreason, Madness is also a contestation of that division's despotic “structure ...
This is where History of Madness can help us, as the story of a split that produced the queer. Not only a diagnosis of the great division between reason and unreason, Madness is also a contestation of that division's despotic “structure ...
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bon describes the relationship between Foucault and Barraqué, which lasted from 1952 to 1956, as one that produced in Foucault a transformation and a growing acceptance of his own homosexuality. I had the chance to flesh out this brief ...
bon describes the relationship between Foucault and Barraqué, which lasted from 1952 to 1956, as one that produced in Foucault a transformation and a growing acceptance of his own homosexuality. I had the chance to flesh out this brief ...
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25 Indeed, to produce such a resolution would be to repeat the psychologizing gesture through which madness is mastered by a discourse of reason. In the 1961 preface, Foucault writes, “Having mastered his madness, and having freed it by ...
25 Indeed, to produce such a resolution would be to repeat the psychologizing gesture through which madness is mastered by a discourse of reason. In the 1961 preface, Foucault writes, “Having mastered his madness, and having freed it by ...
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In that sense, the opening of a passage produced by the mad “thing in becoming” is inevitably an opening “refused by the future” because that future—the act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of ...
In that sense, the opening of a passage produced by the mad “thing in becoming” is inevitably an opening “refused by the future” because that future—the act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of ...
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Rather, I bring out Foucault's lyricism, along with his irony, in order to produce a new encounter—a happening, to borrow a term from Linda Hutcheon—to unsettle the object-event we call Foucault. Both lyricism and irony “happen” in my ...
Rather, I bring out Foucault's lyricism, along with his irony, in order to produce a new encounter—a happening, to borrow a term from Linda Hutcheon—to unsettle the object-event we call Foucault. Both lyricism and irony “happen” in my ...
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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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