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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
From inside the book
Síða 16
... archives; the suppressed 1961 preface to History of Madness. Thus the “charred root of meaning” I'm calling love ... archive, the interludes trace a “personal” story about Foucault and Madness that, interwoven with the more academic ...
... archives; the suppressed 1961 preface to History of Madness. Thus the “charred root of meaning” I'm calling love ... archive, the interludes trace a “personal” story about Foucault and Madness that, interwoven with the more academic ...
Síða 17
... archive symbolizes that part of “Foucault” which “Foucault” himself rejected as the biographical Exterior of his own published writing. For indeed, in the relationship between the written “Foucault”—the Foucault that can be traced ...
... archive symbolizes that part of “Foucault” which “Foucault” himself rejected as the biographical Exterior of his own published writing. For indeed, in the relationship between the written “Foucault”—the Foucault that can be traced ...
Síða 18
... archives as such—as dossiers of delirium in a relation, not of cause and effect, but of juxtaposition, to reason—I hope to forge an opening, however small, for a passage to something other. That opening of a path points, paradoxically ...
... archives as such—as dossiers of delirium in a relation, not of cause and effect, but of juxtaposition, to reason—I hope to forge an opening, however small, for a passage to something other. That opening of a path points, paradoxically ...
Síða 21
... archives, I focused especially on the 1975 Foucault interview with Roger-Pol Droit. Foucault had consented to engage in a ... Archive Fever While in Normandy at the archives I spent most of my time retyping parts of the fifteen-hour 1975 ...
... archives, I focused especially on the 1975 Foucault interview with Roger-Pol Droit. Foucault had consented to engage in a ... Archive Fever While in Normandy at the archives I spent most of my time retyping parts of the fifteen-hour 1975 ...
Síða 23
... to have discovered such a “confession.” Later that evening, I mentioned the passage to my companions at the archives who were working on other writers. They stared at me blankly. Yeah, they responded, so introduction 23.
... to have discovered such a “confession.” Later that evening, I mentioned the passage to my companions at the archives who were working on other writers. They stared at me blankly. Yeah, they responded, so introduction 23.
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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