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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xiv
... sexual alterity, including not only homosexuals, but hysterics, onanists, libertines, prostitutes, debauchers, nymphomaniacs, and other sexual “abnormals.” Madness therefore directly engages the question of sexuality as an experience by ...
... sexual alterity, including not only homosexuals, but hysterics, onanists, libertines, prostitutes, debauchers, nymphomaniacs, and other sexual “abnormals.” Madness therefore directly engages the question of sexuality as an experience by ...
Síða xv
... sexual experience. Providing an alternative to the psychoanalytic language that purportedly allows the madness of sexuality to “speak,” Madness offers an alternative ethical language of eros for engaging the difference of sexual ...
... sexual experience. Providing an alternative to the psychoanalytic language that purportedly allows the madness of sexuality to “speak,” Madness offers an alternative ethical language of eros for engaging the difference of sexual ...
Síða xvi
... sexuality into a moral experience, we must also examine History of Madness and the great division between reason and ... sexual experience released from its moral frame—is what I call Foucault's ethics of eros. This ethics of eros is ...
... sexuality into a moral experience, we must also examine History of Madness and the great division between reason and ... sexual experience released from its moral frame—is what I call Foucault's ethics of eros. This ethics of eros is ...
Síða xvii
... sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness. Bringing them together allows us to reengage the question of a possible queer ethics in Foucault as an erotic ...
... sexual morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness. Bringing them together allows us to reengage the question of a possible queer ethics in Foucault as an erotic ...
Síða 8
... Sexuality One— to articulate ways of thinking about gender and sexuality together and in the process changed American academic conceptions of identity, politics, and marginalization. That chronological moment, around 1990, was a crucial ...
... Sexuality One— to articulate ways of thinking about gender and sexuality together and in the process changed American academic conceptions of identity, politics, and marginalization. That chronological moment, around 1990, was a crucial ...
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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