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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... question of how to think about the past: he understood the 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 ...
... question of how to think about the past: he understood the 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 ...
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... question by the ludic rupture of tragedy's depths. We can only read the lyrical language of tragedy in Madness in its doubled reflection as shattering irony, just as the depths of repressive power are mirrored by a surface network of ...
... question by the ludic rupture of tragedy's depths. We can only read the lyrical language of tragedy in Madness in its doubled reflection as shattering irony, just as the depths of repressive power are mirrored by a surface network of ...
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... question the opposition between depth and surface itself. Those readers of Foucault who have only seen the tragic, deep, repressive dimension of Madness are missing Foucault's intervention into that binary logic. It is only by ...
... question the opposition between depth and surface itself. Those readers of Foucault who have only seen the tragic, deep, repressive dimension of Madness are missing Foucault's intervention into that binary logic. It is only by ...
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... question of ethics. I, by contrast, build my argument around the central question of a postmoral queer political ethic. Third, like many contemporary queer theorists, Eribon distances himself from feminist thought—in fact, he does not ...
... question of ethics. I, by contrast, build my argument around the central question of a postmoral queer political ethic. Third, like many contemporary queer theorists, Eribon distances himself from feminist thought—in fact, he does not ...
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... question: “Why [have] we made sexuality into a moral 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 ...
... question: “Why [have] we made sexuality into a moral 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 ...
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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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