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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... passage to something other. That opening of a path points, paradoxically, to what Foucault in 1961 called “a passage refused by the future, a thing in becoming which is irreparably less than history” (M xxxi). This enigmatic phrase ...
... passage to something other. That opening of a path points, paradoxically, to what Foucault in 1961 called “a passage refused by the future, a thing in becoming which is irreparably less than history” (M xxxi). This enigmatic phrase ...
Síða 19
... passage produced by the mad “thing in becoming” is inevitably an opening “refused by the future” because that future—the act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of reason and History. Thus to occupy ...
... passage produced by the mad “thing in becoming” is inevitably an opening “refused by the future” because that future—the act by which the present makes sense of itself— depends on the sense making of reason and History. Thus to occupy ...
Síða 20
... passage from the 1960s to the 1970s, from Madness to Sexuality One—through the grid of this first aporia, the one underlying the impossible gesture of writing a reasonable book about madness. Aporia, not mastery, ultimately governs ...
... passage from the 1960s to the 1970s, from Madness to Sexuality One—through the grid of this first aporia, the one underlying the impossible gesture of writing a reasonable book about madness. Aporia, not mastery, ultimately governs ...
Síða 22
... passages and the notes at the bottom of the page? Yes. What if, within a workbook filled with aphorisms, one finds a reference, the notation of a meeting or of an address, or a laundry list: is it a work, or not? Why not? And so on, ad ...
... passages and the notes at the bottom of the page? Yes. What if, within a workbook filled with aphorisms, one finds a reference, the notation of a meeting or of an address, or a laundry list: is it a work, or not? Why not? And so on, ad ...
Síða 23
... passage, I was immediately thrilled to have discovered such a “confession.” Later that evening, I mentioned the passage to my companions at the archives who were working on other writers. They stared at me blankly. Yeah, they responded ...
... passage, I was immediately thrilled to have discovered such a “confession.” Later that evening, I mentioned the passage to my companions at the archives who were working on other writers. They stared at me blankly. Yeah, they responded ...
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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