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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Síða xiv
... moral exclusion. We also miss the grounding of Foucault's devastating critique of psychoanalysis in that structure which links reason and science to moral exclusion. And, finally, we miss a crucial element—namely, experience—in ...
... moral exclusion. We also miss the grounding of Foucault's devastating critique of psychoanalysis in that structure which links reason and science to moral exclusion. And, finally, we miss a crucial element—namely, experience—in ...
Síða xv
... moral experience?”11 There are many possible responses to that question, including: it was Christianity that turned the erotic relation into something to be judged according to a rigid system of moral norms. This is, in fact, what ...
... moral experience?”11 There are many possible responses to that question, including: it was Christianity that turned the erotic relation into something to be judged according to a rigid system of moral norms. This is, in fact, what ...
Síða xvi
... moral experience. This approach to Foucault will tease out, in Madness, his ethical alternative to the philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative to rationalist morality—something we ...
... moral experience. This approach to Foucault will tease out, in Madness, his ethical alternative to the philosophical production of moral norms by a sovereign secular reason. That ethical alternative to rationalist morality—something we ...
Síða xvii
... morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness. Bringing them together allows us to reengage the question of a possible queer ethics in Foucault as an erotic response to ...
... morality—Why have we made sexuality into a moral experience?—and his earlier reflections on sexuality and madness. Bringing them together allows us to reengage the question of a possible queer ethics in Foucault as an erotic response to ...
Síða 7
... moral affinities, nor a community of interests, nor a similarity of experiences, nor a congruence of political projects . . . assures the coherence or legitimacy of a resistance,”10 although any of these elements can have a role to play ...
... moral affinities, nor a community of interests, nor a similarity of experiences, nor a congruence of political projects . . . assures the coherence or legitimacy of a resistance,”10 although any of these elements can have a role to play ...
Efni
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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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