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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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
... turn, form part of what Foucault will always refer to as games of truth. As an event inevitably caught in a movement of repetition, fragmentation, copying, reflection, and simulation, the book disappears in this other sense, into the ...
... turn, form part of what Foucault will always refer to as games of truth. As an event inevitably caught in a movement of repetition, fragmentation, copying, reflection, and simulation, the book disappears in this other sense, into the ...
Síða xv
... turning sexuality into a moral experience in the Western world, how do we get out from under it? Most Foucault readers, when faced with that question, turn to his work on the Greco-Roman world and the ethics of the self as ...
... turning sexuality into a moral experience in the Western world, how do we get out from under it? Most Foucault readers, when faced with that question, turn to his work on the Greco-Roman world and the ethics of the self as ...
Síða 2
... turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant, transformative turning: about turning adversity into new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting in the world. Like Foucault, I begin my book here ...
... turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant, transformative turning: about turning adversity into new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting in the world. Like Foucault, I begin my book here ...
Síða 18
... turn the biographical Exterior that is the unpublished writing into an originary cause or explanation of all that follows. Instead, I want to read these pieces of Foucault as the precious, cast-off remains of Foucault the philosopher ...
... turn the biographical Exterior that is the unpublished writing into an originary cause or explanation of all that follows. Instead, I want to read these pieces of Foucault as the precious, cast-off remains of Foucault the philosopher ...
Síða 20
... turns” of metaphorical troping are revealed as the “tricks” or “turns” of madness, what Pascal calls the tours de la folie. This Pascalian turning—placed, as it is, at the beginning of the beginning, as an epigraph to the first preface ...
... turns” of metaphorical troping are revealed as the “tricks” or “turns” of madness, what Pascal calls the tours de la folie. This Pascalian turning—placed, as it is, at the beginning of the beginning, as an epigraph to the first preface ...
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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