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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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bon describes the relationship between Foucault and Barraqué, which lasted from 1952 to 1956, as one that produced in Foucault a transformation and a growing acceptance of his own homosexuality. I had the chance to flesh out this brief ...
bon describes the relationship between Foucault and Barraqué, which lasted from 1952 to 1956, as one that produced in Foucault a transformation and a growing acceptance of his own homosexuality. I had the chance to flesh out this brief ...
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Interludes function like those limits or ruptures that Foucault describes, again in the 1961 preface, as “those obscure gestures, necessarily forgotten as soon as they are accomplished, through which a culture rejects something which ...
Interludes function like those limits or ruptures that Foucault describes, again in the 1961 preface, as “those obscure gestures, necessarily forgotten as soon as they are accomplished, through which a culture rejects something which ...
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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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... if our commitment to the “thing in becoming” Foucault describes as “less than history” is real, we must occupy that place of resistance to History.27 This, I believe, was Foucault's most important contribution to the question of how ...
... if our commitment to the “thing in becoming” Foucault describes as “less than history” is real, we must occupy that place of resistance to History.27 This, I believe, was Foucault's most important contribution to the question of how ...
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Toward the end of the interview, as things unravel and Foucault respectfully declares that he isn't satisfied with the result of their work together (he generously blames himself as much as Droit), he describes an experience of ...
Toward the end of the interview, as things unravel and Foucault respectfully declares that he isn't satisfied with the result of their work together (he generously blames himself as much as Droit), he describes an experience of ...
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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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