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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... French prison system. GIP also helped bring the writings of Eldridge Cleaver and other activists in the American Black Power movement to the attention of the French public.5 Despite the racial dimension of GIP's analysis of the prison ...
... French prison system. GIP also helped bring the writings of Eldridge Cleaver and other activists in the American Black Power movement to the attention of the French public.5 Despite the racial dimension of GIP's analysis of the prison ...
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... French departments, I didn't get to know Foucault there. The French spaces I occupied were imbued with the heady prose of Sévigné and Proust, the dazzling poetry of Scève, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, and the theoretical pirouettes of ...
... French departments, I didn't get to know Foucault there. The French spaces I occupied were imbued with the heady prose of Sévigné and Proust, the dazzling poetry of Scève, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, and the theoretical pirouettes of ...
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... French context.14 Books like Queer Critics (2002) and French Theory (2003) by François Cusset take glee in ridiculing the American uptake of what has been called, from an American perspective, “French theory,” a perspective that mixes ...
... French context.14 Books like Queer Critics (2002) and French Theory (2003) by François Cusset take glee in ridiculing the American uptake of what has been called, from an American perspective, “French theory,” a perspective that mixes ...
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... French literature departments in the 1980s. And to study a text was to engage in a process of interpretation that was open only to those initiated into reading. This italicized approach to knowledge—the close reading of texts—combined ...
... French literature departments in the 1980s. And to study a text was to engage in a process of interpretation that was open only to those initiated into reading. This italicized approach to knowledge—the close reading of texts—combined ...
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... French serial and dodecaphonic musicians—like Boulez and Barraqué,” to whom he was connected “through relations of friendship.”19 The Barraqué coup de foudre represented for Foucault the “first 'snag' in [his] dialectical universe.”20 ...
... French serial and dodecaphonic musicians—like Boulez and Barraqué,” to whom he was connected “through relations of friendship.”19 The Barraqué coup de foudre represented for Foucault the “first 'snag' in [his] dialectical universe.”20 ...
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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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