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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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I view these critiques of Madness as either seriously missing the point of the book or simply not reading what it ... All one can do is describe what Foucault calls the historical “structure of the experience of madness” (M xxxii), ...
I view these critiques of Madness as either seriously missing the point of the book or simply not reading what it ... All one can do is describe what Foucault calls the historical “structure of the experience of madness” (M xxxii), ...
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In Foucault, Deleuze emphasizes the complex relation between history and philosophy Foucault stages in a conception of subjectivity I call coextensive. Understanding coextension in Madness is crucial to my argument that Foucault's early ...
In Foucault, Deleuze emphasizes the complex relation between history and philosophy Foucault stages in a conception of subjectivity I call coextensive. Understanding coextension in Madness is crucial to my argument that Foucault's early ...
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... philosophy and history, technology and human society, conceptual abstraction and concrete institutions, addresses the ... For, if Madness may contain traces of Foucault's philosophical formation in phenomenology, the book clearly ...
... philosophy and history, technology and human society, conceptual abstraction and concrete institutions, addresses the ... For, if Madness may contain traces of Foucault's philosophical formation in phenomenology, the book clearly ...
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62 All these critiques of “revolution” underline what I see, at the heart of Madness, as an ethical critique that can be ... the three volumes that constitute The History of Sexuality, with the huge preponderance of attention falling on ...
62 All these critiques of “revolution” underline what I see, at the heart of Madness, as an ethical critique that can be ... the three volumes that constitute The History of Sexuality, with the huge preponderance of attention falling on ...
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First, while Eribon insists that Foucault's story is ultimately the history of gay men, I argue explicitly against such specifications: as forms of madness, sexual abnormalities shift over time and ...
First, while Eribon insists that Foucault's story is ultimately the history of gay men, I argue explicitly against such specifications: as forms of madness, sexual abnormalities shift over time and ...
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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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