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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... unreason. But “unreason,” Ian Hacking reminds us, “is no longer part of daily language” (M xii). And from the very start, Hacking continues, “you will have been wondering what it means. Rightly so” (M xii). I'm afraid we can only keep ...
... unreason. But “unreason,” Ian Hacking reminds us, “is no longer part of daily language” (M xii). And from the very start, Hacking continues, “you will have been wondering what it means. Rightly so” (M xii). I'm afraid we can only keep ...
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... unreason is in relation to the reason from which it splits. In itself, it is nothing. Since in itself unreason is nothing, I make my entrée into this difficult material through the act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the ...
... unreason is in relation to the reason from which it splits. In itself, it is nothing. Since in itself unreason is nothing, I make my entrée into this difficult material through the act of splitting itself. Splitting is complex, as the ...
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... unreason. How fitting, I mused as I mounted the stairs, that the epistolary traces of Foucault's first coup de foudre, his fol amour, should settle here. After I entered the apartment, the keeper of the correspondence graciously gave me ...
... unreason. How fitting, I mused as I mounted the stairs, that the epistolary traces of Foucault's first coup de foudre, his fol amour, should settle here. After I entered the apartment, the keeper of the correspondence graciously gave me ...
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... unreason. So, with its interludes, this book performs my own personal, post-Cartesian drama in a way that repeats a similar struggle Foucault describes in History of Madness. A word to those readers whose preferences run counter to my ...
... unreason. So, with its interludes, this book performs my own personal, post-Cartesian drama in a way that repeats a similar struggle Foucault describes in History of Madness. A word to those readers whose preferences run counter to my ...
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... unreason from which it came, so too “Foucault” (in 1961) expels from himself in the form of suppression “the memory of all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly” (M xxviii) of his own madness: his suicide ...
... unreason from which it came, so too “Foucault” (in 1961) expels from himself in the form of suppression “the memory of all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly” (M xxviii) of his own madness: his suicide ...
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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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