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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... speaking with the weight or solemnity of a “text.” Rather, it should have the désinvolture—the lightness, the attitude of disengagement or abandon—to present itself as discourse, releasing itself from literary and philosophical ...
... speaking with the weight or solemnity of a “text.” Rather, it should have the désinvolture—the lightness, the attitude of disengagement or abandon—to present itself as discourse, releasing itself from literary and philosophical ...
Síða xv
... speak,” Madness offers an alternative ethical language of eros for engaging the difference of sexual unreason. Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault ...
... speak,” Madness offers an alternative ethical language of eros for engaging the difference of sexual unreason. Toward the end of his life, in his lectures, courses, and the second and third volumes of History of Sexuality, Foucault ...
Síða xvii
... speak to our queer political 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 ...
... speak to our queer political 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 ...
Síða xviii
... speak of the limits of my enterprise, I mean to set a boundary for your freedom” (M xxxviii). Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid ...
... speak of the limits of my enterprise, I mean to set a boundary for your freedom” (M xxxviii). Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. But it's difficult to let go, to avoid ...
Síða 2
... speaking. “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant / Success in Circuit lies,” a queer Emily Dickinson reminds us. Quer also means adverse—from the Latin versus, a turning, the root that gives us perverse, perverted, pervert. The danger of ...
... speaking. “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant / Success in Circuit lies,” a queer Emily Dickinson reminds us. Quer also means adverse—from the Latin versus, a turning, the root that gives us perverse, perverted, pervert. The danger of ...
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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