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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
From inside the book
Síða xiv
... reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and unreason in the Age ...
... reason: to “shake off philosophy,” as he puts it in this book's first epigraph. Finally, as Didier Eribon notes in Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (2003), Madness's dissection of the structures of madness and unreason in the Age ...
Síða xvi
... reason and unreason. If returning to the Greeks was Foucault's way of getting out from under Christian morality, returning to the moment of splitting in the Age of Reason was Foucault's way of getting out from under philosophy's ...
... reason and unreason. If returning to the Greeks was Foucault's way of getting out from under Christian morality, returning to the moment of splitting in the Age of Reason was Foucault's way of getting out from under philosophy's ...
Síða xvii
... reason, for Foucault, is inhabited by its opposite, unreason. As the point of that division, Foucault's ethics of eros describes a force of both connection and dissolution: It is both tragic and ironic, lyrical and ludic, the site of ...
... reason, for Foucault, is inhabited by its opposite, unreason. As the point of that division, Foucault's ethics of eros describes a force of both connection and dissolution: It is both tragic and ironic, lyrical and ludic, the site of ...
Síða 1
... reason and unreason. That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of subjectivity tossed into a dustbin called madness. Queerness is a name we have given to one of those forms. Since the early 1990s, we ...
... reason and unreason. That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of subjectivity tossed into a dustbin called madness. Queerness is a name we have given to one of those forms. Since the early 1990s, we ...
Síða 4
... reason from unreason. As someone who speaks mostly with a voice of reason, I accept the ironic terms of this project: that is, my own place in a grid of historical contingencies that separate reason from unreason, and reason's reliance ...
... reason from unreason. As someone who speaks mostly with a voice of reason, I accept the ironic terms of this project: that is, my own place in a grid of historical contingencies that separate reason from unreason, and reason's reliance ...
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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