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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 13
... sole purpose of letting Monsieur know he's thinking of him. Later (it's clear things aren't going well), Foucault becomes Eurydice, languishing in the void. figure 0.2. Ceiling mosaic, Ravenna baptistry (fifth century). introduction 13.
... sole purpose of letting Monsieur know he's thinking of him. Later (it's clear things aren't going well), Foucault becomes Eurydice, languishing in the void. figure 0.2. Ceiling mosaic, Ravenna baptistry (fifth century). introduction 13.
Síða 14
... becomes Eurydice, languishing in the void of Barraqué's absence, brought to life again only by the arrival of new letters from his lover, letters which become increasingly infrequent and then cease altogether. I am, Foucault writes to ...
... becomes Eurydice, languishing in the void of Barraqué's absence, brought to life again only by the arrival of new letters from his lover, letters which become increasingly infrequent and then cease altogether. I am, Foucault writes to ...
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... becomes my own story of love. In order to tell that story, I need the suppressed and unpublished marginalia of the ... become clear, my academic voice continually threatens to overwhelm my more personal, experiential one: my Cartesian ...
... becomes my own story of love. In order to tell that story, I need the suppressed and unpublished marginalia of the ... become clear, my academic voice continually threatens to overwhelm my more personal, experiential one: my Cartesian ...
Síða 17
... becomes “the animal that loses its truth and finds it again illuminated, a stranger to himself who becomes familiar once more” (M 543). This means not reducing my Foucault to a narrative about the biographical subtext that would explain ...
... becomes “the animal that loses its truth and finds it again illuminated, a stranger to himself who becomes familiar once more” (M 543). This means not reducing my Foucault to a narrative about the biographical subtext that would explain ...
Síða 18
... becomes “less than history” through the retrospective process of History making that happens, structurally, as the future. The future—as a retrospective, teleological act of meaning making that distances itself from nonmeaning—is the ...
... becomes “less than history” through the retrospective process of History making that happens, structurally, as the future. The future—as a retrospective, teleological act of meaning making that distances itself from nonmeaning—is the ...
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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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