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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Specifically, in order to grapple with the difficult question of why we've made sexuality into a moral experience, we must also examine History of Madness and the great division between reason and unreason. If returning to the Greeks ...
Specifically, in order to grapple with the difficult question of why we've made sexuality into a moral experience, we must also examine History of Madness and the great division between reason and unreason. If returning to the Greeks ...
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That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of subjectivity tossed into a dustbin called madness. Queerness is a name we have given to one of those forms. Since the early 1990s, we—queer theorists and ...
That split organizes Foucault's histoire—his history and his story—about forms of subjectivity tossed into a dustbin called madness. Queerness is a name we have given to one of those forms. Since the early 1990s, we—queer theorists and ...
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It was this rediscovery of the “tragic structure” of light and dark that took the form of Foucault's first major book, History of Madness, written in the late 1950s. Placing the Barraqué correspondence in dialogue with Foucault's ...
It was this rediscovery of the “tragic structure” of light and dark that took the form of Foucault's first major book, History of Madness, written in the late 1950s. Placing the Barraqué correspondence in dialogue with Foucault's ...
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So, with its interludes, this book performs my own personal, post-Cartesian drama in a way that repeats a similar struggle Foucault describes in History of Madness. A word to those readers whose preferences run counter to my taste for ...
So, with its interludes, this book performs my own personal, post-Cartesian drama in a way that repeats a similar struggle Foucault describes in History of Madness. A word to those readers whose preferences run counter to my taste for ...
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But that impossible, queer position—the position of madness—is also, politically, the one we must hold. It is a position that refuses many of the terms according to which our own present has been constructed by a totalizing history, ...
But that impossible, queer position—the position of madness—is also, politically, the one we must hold. It is a position that refuses many of the terms according to which our own present has been constructed by a totalizing history, ...
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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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