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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xviii
... French revised edition of Madness. “I really ought to write a new preface for this book,” Foucault begins. But he finds the idea to be “unattractive” (M xxxvii), even repugnant, as the original French j'y répugne (F 9) suggests ...
... French revised edition of Madness. “I really ought to write a new preface for this book,” Foucault begins. But he finds the idea to be “unattractive” (M xxxvii), even repugnant, as the original French j'y répugne (F 9) suggests ...
Síða xxi
... her intelligent interventions and ongoing inspiration. I am grateful to Michel Achard for help on the nuances of French-English translation and to my research assistants Kelly Ball, Kathryn. Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments.
... her intelligent interventions and ongoing inspiration. I am grateful to Michel Achard for help on the nuances of French-English translation and to my research assistants Kelly Ball, Kathryn. Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments.
Síða xxii
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. French-English translation and to my research assistants Kelly Ball, Kathryn Wilchens, and Lizzy Venell for their tireless and impeccably executed work on this project. Many thanks ...
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. French-English translation and to my research assistants Kelly Ball, Kathryn Wilchens, and Lizzy Venell for their tireless and impeccably executed work on this project. Many thanks ...
Síða 4
... French and American, hate and love. Oddly, perhaps, I get at these splits—try to work through them nonpsychoanalytically—by using Foucault and his great story about the split that creates unreason and eventually madness. Ultimately ...
... French and American, hate and love. Oddly, perhaps, I get at these splits—try to work through them nonpsychoanalytically—by using Foucault and his great story about the split that creates unreason and eventually madness. Ultimately ...
Síða 5
... French village idiot, Jouy, in Sexuality One and Abnormal, and in his infamous comments before the 1977 French commission on rape, recounted by Monique Plaza in her angry article, “Our Damages and Their Compensation: Rape: The Will Not ...
... French village idiot, Jouy, in Sexuality One and Abnormal, and in his infamous comments before the 1977 French commission on rape, recounted by Monique Plaza in her angry article, “Our Damages and Their Compensation: Rape: The Will Not ...
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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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