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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... experience of alterity.”53 Agreeing with Habermas, McNay asserts that “it is impossible to attribute an a priori revolutionary force to any form of knowledge” (40), including those which are subjugated or disqualified by dominant forms ...
... experience of alterity.”53 Agreeing with Habermas, McNay asserts that “it is impossible to attribute an a priori revolutionary force to any form of knowledge” (40), including those which are subjugated or disqualified by dominant forms ...
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... experience of madness,” as McNay asserts, nor does he posit, as Dreyfus suggests, that a silenced madness “must be allowed to speak its truth.” Indeed, in the 1961 preface to the book, he insists precisely on what McNay calls “the ...
... experience of madness,” as McNay asserts, nor does he posit, as Dreyfus suggests, that a silenced madness “must be allowed to speak its truth.” Indeed, in the 1961 preface to the book, he insists precisely on what McNay calls “the ...
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... experience in Poland brought him face-to-face with the devastating results of Communist revolution in eastern Europe; in the 1961 preface to Madness, his sarcastic reference to “the stubborn, bright sun of Polish liberty” (M xxxv) ...
... experience in Poland brought him face-to-face with the devastating results of Communist revolution in eastern Europe; in the 1961 preface to Madness, his sarcastic reference to “the stubborn, bright sun of Polish liberty” (M xxxv) ...
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... experience?” Madness has much to offer in answering that question. It is my contention that we cannot understand what Foucault is doing in Sexuality One (or volumes 2 and 3)—indeed we cannot understand sexuality tout court in Foucault ...
... experience?” Madness has much to offer in answering that question. It is my contention that we cannot understand what Foucault is doing in Sexuality One (or volumes 2 and 3)—indeed we cannot understand sexuality tout court in Foucault ...
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... experience has been drained away. Sapped of what we might call the messy thickness of erotic life, Sexuality One gives us only the thin abstractions of a dispositif—the webs of power-knowledge that have no contact with the living ...
... experience has been drained away. Sapped of what we might call the messy thickness of erotic life, Sexuality One gives us only the thin abstractions of a dispositif—the webs of power-knowledge that have no contact with the living ...
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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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