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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... engages the question of sexuality as an experience by incorporating it within the frame of madness. By contrast, Foucault's purely discursive definition of sexuality in Sexuality One drains it of any possible experiential meanings. To ...
... engages the question of sexuality as an experience by incorporating it within the frame of madness. By contrast, Foucault's purely discursive definition of sexuality in Sexuality One drains it of any possible experiential meanings. To ...
Síða xv
... engagement with the book, especially in a queer context. My analysis of Madness begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of psychoanalysis and asking, more specifically, about the question of ethics as it ...
... engagement with the book, especially in a queer context. My analysis of Madness begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of psychoanalysis and asking, more specifically, about the question of ethics as it ...
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... engagement with Foucault. This is not to privilege one discourse over the other, but rather to put them in dialogue with each other. As will become clear, my academic voice continually threatens to overwhelm my more personal ...
... engagement with Foucault. This is not to privilege one discourse over the other, but rather to put them in dialogue with each other. As will become clear, my academic voice continually threatens to overwhelm my more personal ...
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... engagement with Foucault. And they happen most powerfully and specifically in his thinking about sexuality. I perceive the tension between them—most forcefully, undoubtedly, in the passage from the 1960s to the 1970s, from Madness to ...
... engagement with Foucault. And they happen most powerfully and specifically in his thinking about sexuality. I perceive the tension between them—most forcefully, undoubtedly, in the passage from the 1960s to the 1970s, from Madness to ...
Síða 28
... engagement with Madness and the archival marginalia that informs it in the chapters to follow. Here I want to simply emphasize the facts about what Foucault actually writes in Madness. Nowhere in Madness does Foucault claim to “recover ...
... engagement with Madness and the archival marginalia that informs it in the chapters to follow. Here I want to simply emphasize the facts about what Foucault actually writes in Madness. Nowhere in Madness does Foucault claim to “recover ...
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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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