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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... philosophical project to rupture Philosophy: to “shake it off.” So I like to think of them as those metaphorical firecrackers Foucault loved so much, tiny object-events whose casual abandon both punctures and lightens the ink-heavy ...
... philosophical project to rupture Philosophy: to “shake it off.” So I like to think of them as those metaphorical firecrackers Foucault loved so much, tiny object-events whose casual abandon both punctures and lightens the ink-heavy ...
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... philosophical work of history making as a fraught negotiation between the present and the future whose purpose is to bring that which is “irreparably less than history” into view. Doing so, he made a commitment to a different future ...
... philosophical work of history making as a fraught negotiation between the present and the future whose purpose is to bring that which is “irreparably less than history” into view. Doing so, he made a commitment to a different future ...
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... philosophical critique of Foucault has come from an equally famous critic of Enlightenment thinking, Jacques Derrida, who, especially in the American mainstream highbrow press, is often lumped together with Foucault. In postmodern ...
... philosophical critique of Foucault has come from an equally famous critic of Enlightenment thinking, Jacques Derrida, who, especially in the American mainstream highbrow press, is often lumped together with Foucault. In postmodern ...
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... philosophical impossibility of such a project” (40). McNay argues that only after Madness does Foucault mature beyond a romantic conception of insanity as an essential locus of transgressive speech. “Madness in itself is no longer the ...
... philosophical impossibility of such a project” (40). McNay argues that only after Madness does Foucault mature beyond a romantic conception of insanity as an essential locus of transgressive speech. “Madness in itself is no longer the ...
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... philosophical impossibility” of capturing madness and speaking its truth: to capture that experience, Foucault writes, “is, no doubt, a doubly impossible task” (M xxxii). He continues: “that pain and those words” cannot be spoken ...
... philosophical impossibility” of capturing madness and speaking its truth: to capture that experience, Foucault writes, “is, no doubt, a doubly impossible task” (M xxxii). He continues: “that pain and those words” cannot be spoken ...
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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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