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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xii
... tion , copying , reflection , and simulation , the book disappears in this other sense , into the infinite proliferation of its doubles as truth . What remains of the book are these truth - effects in the world . The book as discourse ...
... tion , copying , reflection , and simulation , the book disappears in this other sense , into the infinite proliferation of its doubles as truth . What remains of the book are these truth - effects in the world . The book as discourse ...
Síða xiv
... tion of sexuality as an experience by incorporating it within the frame of madness. By contrast, Foucault's purely discursive definition of sexual- ity in Sexuality One drains it of any possible experiential meanings. To read Foucault ...
... tion of sexuality as an experience by incorporating it within the frame of madness. By contrast, Foucault's purely discursive definition of sexual- ity in Sexuality One drains it of any possible experiential meanings. To read Foucault ...
Síða xviii
... tion of Madness . “ I really ought to write a new preface for this book , " Foucault begins . But he finds the idea to be “ unattractive ” ( M xxxvii ) , even repugnant , as the original French j'y répugne ( F 9 ) suggests . None ...
... tion of Madness . “ I really ought to write a new preface for this book , " Foucault begins . But he finds the idea to be “ unattractive ” ( M xxxvii ) , even repugnant , as the original French j'y répugne ( F 9 ) suggests . None ...
Síða xix
... tion that refuses to erase , in some happy resolution , the contradictory traces of their doubled construction . I've written this preface , then , to signal a postmodern , aporetic irony at the heart of Foucault's project . But if ...
... tion that refuses to erase , in some happy resolution , the contradictory traces of their doubled construction . I've written this preface , then , to signal a postmodern , aporetic irony at the heart of Foucault's project . But if ...
Síða 7
... tion , hosted a queer radio show , worked to help elect a progressive Afri- can American activist to Houston City Council , and rode the Atlanta light rail registering voters during the Obama campaign for the U.S. presidency . Although ...
... tion , hosted a queer radio show , worked to help elect a progressive Afri- can American activist to Houston City Council , and rode the Atlanta light rail registering voters during the Obama campaign for the U.S. presidency . Although ...
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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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