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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... death. Indeed, another of Foucault's teachers, Louis Althusser, described Madness as a matutinal work “with elements of night and flashes of dawn, a twilight book, like Nietzsche, yet as luminous as an equation.”22 It was a book that ...
... death. Indeed, another of Foucault's teachers, Louis Althusser, described Madness as a matutinal work “with elements of night and flashes of dawn, a twilight book, like Nietzsche, yet as luminous as an equation.”22 It was a book that ...
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... death bears our current language) is homo dialecticus” (M 543). The doubled structure of flow and interruption I have been describing cannot lead to the neat resolution of a dialectical sublation where, as Simone de Beauvoir ...
... death bears our current language) is homo dialecticus” (M 543). The doubled structure of flow and interruption I have been describing cannot lead to the neat resolution of a dialectical sublation where, as Simone de Beauvoir ...
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... death, and republished both excerpts in a 2004 collection of Foucault interviews, Michel Foucault, entretiens.28 The rest of the interview remains, in unedited and unpublished form, as four hundred typed manuscript pages available for ...
... death, and republished both excerpts in a 2004 collection of Foucault interviews, Michel Foucault, entretiens.28 The rest of the interview remains, in unedited and unpublished form, as four hundred typed manuscript pages available for ...
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... death?29 The contradiction between statements like these and the severe directive—“inpubliable doncembarras”—stirred up a resistance in me. They made me want to dig deeper, to salvage something from this piece of rejected, unpublished ...
... death?29 The contradiction between statements like these and the severe directive—“inpubliable doncembarras”—stirred up a resistance in me. They made me want to dig deeper, to salvage something from this piece of rejected, unpublished ...
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... death, Deleuze brilliantly condenses all of Foucault's work around the familiar themes of doubling, foldings, and repetition. And although Deleuze's Foucault only directly engages History of Madness in a few key passages, as a “sketch ...
... death, Deleuze brilliantly condenses all of Foucault's work around the familiar themes of doubling, foldings, and repetition. And although Deleuze's Foucault only directly engages History of Madness in a few key passages, as a “sketch ...
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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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