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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... Foucault who has also organized to oppose antigay legislation, hosted a queer radio show, worked to help elect a progressive African American activist to Houston City Council, and rode the Atlanta light rail registering voters during ...
... Foucault who has also organized to oppose antigay legislation, hosted a queer radio show, worked to help elect a progressive African American activist to Houston City Council, and rode the Atlanta light rail registering voters during ...
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... Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit. Although trained in ...
... Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit. Although trained in ...
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... Foucault's lover and longtime companion, the executor of his estate and papers. For reasons that are not mine to know, and that Didier could not explain either, today, over twenty years after Foucault's death, Defert will not allow ...
... Foucault's lover and longtime companion, the executor of his estate and papers. For reasons that are not mine to know, and that Didier could not explain either, today, over twenty years after Foucault's death, Defert will not allow ...
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... Foucault a transformation and a growing acceptance of his own homosexuality. I had the chance to flesh out this brief story by reading Foucault's original letters to Barraqué in August 2008.16 Not available for public scrutiny, the ...
... Foucault a transformation and a growing acceptance of his own homosexuality. I had the chance to flesh out this brief story by reading Foucault's original letters to Barraqué in August 2008.16 Not available for public scrutiny, the ...
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... Foucault's last letter dated May 1956. By the fall of 1955, Barraqué had stopped responding to Foucault's letters from Sweden; it appears that Barraqué chose his work over what he saw as the trap of passion.17 Foucault promises to leave ...
... Foucault's last letter dated May 1956. By the fall of 1955, Barraqué had stopped responding to Foucault's letters from Sweden; it appears that Barraqué chose his work over what he saw as the trap of passion.17 Foucault promises to leave ...
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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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