Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryMichel 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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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It functions, Foucault writes, as “both battle and weapon, strategy and shock, struggle and trophy or wound, conjuncture and vestige, strange meeting and repeatable scene” (Mxxxviii). For Foucault, the book is a confluence of ...
It functions, Foucault writes, as “both battle and weapon, strategy and shock, struggle and trophy or wound, conjuncture and vestige, strange meeting and repeatable scene” (Mxxxviii). For Foucault, the book is a confluence of ...
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“Foucault,” Deleuze writes, “is haunted by the double and its essential otherness.”6 Eventialization links history with philosophy through the concept of the double, and doubling brings out the political dimension of the book as ...
“Foucault,” Deleuze writes, “is haunted by the double and its essential otherness.”6 Eventialization links history with philosophy through the concept of the double, and doubling brings out the political dimension of the book as ...
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Describing the difference between the original and its translation, he writes: “Doublings: I suggest that you hold in your hands two distinct books. . . . Despite the words being the same, so much has happened that the meaning is ...
Describing the difference between the original and its translation, he writes: “Doublings: I suggest that you hold in your hands two distinct books. . . . Despite the words being the same, so much has happened that the meaning is ...
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Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. ... Foucault faces this difficulty when he is asked to write a new preface for the 1972 French revised edition of Madness.
Foucault is right, of course, when he writes these lines in the “nonpreface” he supplies in 1972. ... Foucault faces this difficulty when he is asked to write a new preface for the 1972 French revised edition of Madness.
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“My voice formed from my life belongs to no one else,” Howe writes. “What I put into words is no longer my possession.”1 Like Howe with Dickinson, I've made this Foucault my Foucault, the one 4 introduction.
“My voice formed from my life belongs to no one else,” Howe writes. “What I put into words is no longer my possession.”1 Like Howe with Dickinson, I've made this Foucault my Foucault, the one 4 introduction.
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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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| Titill | Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Gender and Culture Series |
| Höfundur | Lynne Huffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | Columbia University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0231520514, 9780231520515 |
| Length | 304 síður |
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