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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit. Although trained in French departments, I didn't get to know Foucault there. The French spaces I occupied were ...
My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit. Although trained in French departments, I didn't get to know Foucault there. The French spaces I occupied were ...
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... work are a part has been slow to take up seriously any of the theorists, especially the queer and feminist ones, who have so profoundly transformed the American intellectual context, and for whom Foucault's work has been so crucial.
... work are a part has been slow to take up seriously any of the theorists, especially the queer and feminist ones, who have so profoundly transformed the American intellectual context, and for whom Foucault's work has been so crucial.
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To be sure, during the same period, women's studies taught me to take seriously the sociopolitical context of a text and my feminist commitments kept me anchored in the world of activism even as I moved ever more deeply into the world ...
To be sure, during the same period, women's studies taught me to take seriously the sociopolitical context of a text and my feminist commitments kept me anchored in the world of activism even as I moved ever more deeply into the world ...
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All this forms the context for my narrative about meeting Foucault, over and over, in a vertiginous movement of eternal return. I met him again, in 2006, in that liminal space that marks the split between the work and its unpublished ...
All this forms the context for my narrative about meeting Foucault, over and over, in a vertiginous movement of eternal return. I met him again, in 2006, in that liminal space that marks the split between the work and its unpublished ...
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For, although in other interviews Foucault asserts that his thinking is clearly shaped by autobiography, context is everything. Perhaps because of the sheer length of the Droit interview, it ends up feeling more insistent, more despotic ...
For, although in other interviews Foucault asserts that his thinking is clearly shaped by autobiography, context is everything. Perhaps because of the sheer length of the Droit interview, it ends up feeling more insistent, more despotic ...
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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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