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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xii
... preface, have opened a passage, belatedly and retrospectively, into my reinterpretation of History of Madness in the context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the explosive doubling of the book-event points to the complexity of a ...
... preface, have opened a passage, belatedly and retrospectively, into my reinterpretation of History of Madness in the context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the explosive doubling of the book-event points to the complexity of a ...
Síða xiii
... only Foucault's first major book but also the one Foucault himself favored over all the others. Additionally, although there is great disagreement among Foucauldians about the continuity of Foucault's ideas over the prefaCe xiii.
... only Foucault's first major book but also the one Foucault himself favored over all the others. Additionally, although there is great disagreement among Foucauldians about the continuity of Foucault's ideas over the prefaCe xiii.
Síða xiv
... of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through the lens of a queer theoretical project that missed it the first time around. This queer reading of Madness builds on the work begun by xiv prefaCe.
... of resistance.”10 Mad for Foucault reads History of Madness belatedly, through the lens of a queer theoretical project that missed it the first time around. This queer reading of Madness builds on the work begun by xiv prefaCe.
Síða xv
... one way to get out from under morality as we know it in the West was to return to the ancient world in order to unearth pre-Christian corporeal practices that were not coded according to Christian moral conceptions of the prefaCe xv.
... one way to get out from under morality as we know it in the West was to return to the ancient world in order to unearth pre-Christian corporeal practices that were not coded according to Christian moral conceptions of the prefaCe xv.
Síða xvi
... preface: “Any perception that aims to apprehend [those insane words] in their wild state necessarily belongs to a world that has captured them already” (M xxxii). Thus the historical objectification by the Age of Reason of our bodily ...
... preface: “Any perception that aims to apprehend [those insane words] in their wild state necessarily belongs to a world that has captured them already” (M xxxii). Thus the historical objectification by the Age of Reason of our bodily ...
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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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