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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xii
... sense, the book as object-event takes its place within a larger conceptualization of history as eventialization. “Foucault,” Deleuze writes, “is haunted by the double and its essential otherness.”6 Eventialization links history with ...
... sense, the book as object-event takes its place within a larger conceptualization of history as eventialization. “Foucault,” Deleuze writes, “is haunted by the double and its essential otherness.”6 Eventialization links history with ...
Síða 1
... is denounced as not being a language [and] as having no rightful place in history. This structure is constitutive of what is sense and nonsense” (M xxxii). Just as reason excludes nonsense from itself, so, too, it. Introduction.
... is denounced as not being a language [and] as having no rightful place in history. This structure is constitutive of what is sense and nonsense” (M xxxii). Just as reason excludes nonsense from itself, so, too, it. Introduction.
Síða 16
... sense of the bodily realm of heart and passion: reason wants to overtake unreason. So, with its interludes, this book performs my own personal, post-Cartesian drama in a way that repeats a similar struggle Foucault describes in History ...
... sense of the bodily realm of heart and passion: reason wants to overtake unreason. So, with its interludes, this book performs my own personal, post-Cartesian drama in a way that repeats a similar struggle Foucault describes in History ...
Síða 17
... sense of this “charred root of meaning” that I'm implicitly linking with Foucault's “personal” story. Earlier I cited Foucault's 1964 essay, “Madness, the Absence of an Oeuvre,” where he reminds us: “That which will not be long in dying ...
... sense of this “charred root of meaning” that I'm implicitly linking with Foucault's “personal” story. Earlier I cited Foucault's 1964 essay, “Madness, the Absence of an Oeuvre,” where he reminds us: “That which will not be long in dying ...
Síða 19
... 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 reason and ...
... 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 reason and ...
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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