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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... consequences, acts and their traces, the sharp thrust of the present and the percussive repetitions of a past remembered. It is also, ultimately, a small explosion, one of many object-events destined to disappear: “I think of x prefaCe.
... consequences, acts and their traces, the sharp thrust of the present and the percussive repetitions of a past remembered. It is also, ultimately, a small explosion, one of many object-events destined to disappear: “I think of x prefaCe.
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... 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 aporia—from the Greek aporos— suggests in its etymology that there will be “no ...
... 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 aporia—from the Greek aporos— suggests in its etymology that there will be “no ...
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... traces of that analysis disappear.6 Davis is right to note that, if Discipline and Punish is “arguably the most influential text in contemporary studies of the prison system . . . gender and race are virtually absent”7 from the book ...
... traces of that analysis disappear.6 Davis is right to note that, if Discipline and Punish is “arguably the most influential text in contemporary studies of the prison system . . . gender and race are virtually absent”7 from the book ...
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... traces of Foucault's first coup de foudre, his fol amour, should settle here. After I entered the apartment, the keeper of the correspondence graciously gave me access to the contents of a red looseleaf binder where the letters live ...
... traces of Foucault's first coup de foudre, his fol amour, should settle here. After I entered the apartment, the keeper of the correspondence graciously gave me access to the contents of a red looseleaf binder where the letters live ...
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... trace a “personal” story about Foucault and Madness that, interwoven with the more academic discourse, constitutes an important part of the discursive fabric of my engagement with Foucault. This is not to privilege one discourse over ...
... trace a “personal” story about Foucault and Madness that, interwoven with the more academic discourse, constitutes an important part of the discursive fabric of my engagement with Foucault. This is not to privilege one discourse over ...
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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