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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 xix
... rupture of the ironic split may not be dialectical, but that doesn't mean there's no passage at all. Indeed, finding a passage—“giving the mad a language”13—is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness. And finding a passage—a way ...
... rupture of the ironic split may not be dialectical, but that doesn't mean there's no passage at all. Indeed, finding a passage—“giving the mad a language”13—is Foucault's declared purpose in writing Madness. And finding a passage—a way ...
Síða 15
... rupture, as an interruption in the narrative flow. To allow for rupture in the flow of a story is to allow for the “obstinate murmur” of something other to come to the surface, to attempt to speak. My own structure here—where story is ...
... rupture, as an interruption in the narrative flow. To allow for rupture in the flow of a story is to allow for the “obstinate murmur” of something other to come to the surface, to attempt to speak. My own structure here—where story is ...
Síða 17
... 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 atmosphere of theory. I offer ...
... 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 atmosphere of theory. I offer ...
Síða 29
... 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 productive power. The ...
... 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 productive power. The ...
Síða 37
... rupture within the tight machinery of philosophical reason. That experience of rupture was of a different order than the intellectual understanding I had developed over the years of the well-known Foucauldian concept of rupture. To ...
... rupture within the tight machinery of philosophical reason. That experience of rupture was of a different order than the intellectual understanding I had developed over the years of the well-known Foucauldian concept of rupture. To ...
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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