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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... thought they were boring—but the relative absence of women there gave me more ammunition for my feminist critique of Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the ...
... thought they were boring—but the relative absence of women there gave me more ammunition for my feminist critique of Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the ...
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... thought, as I said goodbye to Didier and left the café, there's something poignant in Defert's resistance, his refusal to let go. I've never met him, but I choose to read this maddening grip on Foucault's papers over two decades after ...
... thought, as I said goodbye to Didier and left the café, there's something poignant in Defert's resistance, his refusal to let go. I've never met him, but I choose to read this maddening grip on Foucault's papers over two decades after ...
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... thought, Foucault opens Madness with an epigraph from Pascal: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.” How, I wondered as I pushed the buzzer, did Foucault's ...
... thought, Foucault opens Madness with an epigraph from Pascal: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not being mad would be being mad through another trick [tour] that madness played.” How, I wondered as I pushed the buzzer, did Foucault's ...
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... thought, as Butler does in Gender Trouble, that Foucault “always resisted the confessional moment.”33 But here in his description of his sexual “awakening,” his feelings of “exclusion,” and the shock of a “psychiatric threat” that would ...
... thought, as Butler does in Gender Trouble, that Foucault “always resisted the confessional moment.”33 But here in his description of his sexual “awakening,” his feelings of “exclusion,” and the shock of a “psychiatric threat” that would ...
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... thought of resistance”34 to the despotic readings that refuse to see Foucault's queer madness. Requeering Foucault This book can be conceived as a queer intervention into Foucault studies through a sustained reengagement with History of ...
... thought of resistance”34 to the despotic readings that refuse to see Foucault's queer madness. Requeering Foucault This book can be conceived as a queer intervention into Foucault studies through a sustained reengagement with History of ...
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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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