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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... calls History of Madness “a provocative and dazzlingly written prose poem”36—criticize the book on factual grounds.37 Others assert that it is not history at all.38 For example, Allen Megill argues that Foucault “is antidisciplinary ...
... calls History of Madness “a provocative and dazzlingly written prose poem”36—criticize the book on factual grounds.37 Others assert that it is not history at all.38 For example, Allen Megill argues that Foucault “is antidisciplinary ...
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... calls a Foucauldian “space of endless contestation”: “the site in which discourses shape themselves, a site of ... call “his flirtation with hermeneutic depth” in Madness.49 Along the same lines, in his foreword to Foucault's Mental ...
... calls a Foucauldian “space of endless contestation”: “the site in which discourses shape themselves, a site of ... call “his flirtation with hermeneutic depth” in Madness.49 Along the same lines, in his foreword to Foucault's Mental ...
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... calls “the philosophical impossibility” of capturing madness and speaking its truth: to capture that experience, Foucault writes, “is, no doubt, a doubly impossible task” (M xxxii). He continues: “that pain and those words” cannot be ...
... calls “the philosophical impossibility” of capturing madness and speaking its truth: to capture that experience, Foucault writes, “is, no doubt, a doubly impossible task” (M xxxii). He continues: “that pain and those words” cannot be ...
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... calls an “unformed element of forces.”58 Less abstractly, if extension refers to the ensemble of concrete or abstract subjects or objects to which a concept, proposition, or relation applies, coextension describes two or more ensembles ...
... calls an “unformed element of forces.”58 Less abstractly, if extension refers to the ensemble of concrete or abstract subjects or objects to which a concept, proposition, or relation applies, coextension describes two or more ensembles ...
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... calls in “The Thought of the Outside” (1966) “this anonymity of language liberated and opened to its own ... calling coextensive—responds to those critics of Madness who fault it for relying on an ontotheological model of hermeneutic ...
... calls in “The Thought of the Outside” (1966) “this anonymity of language liberated and opened to its own ... calling coextensive—responds to those critics of Madness who fault it for relying on an ontotheological model of hermeneutic ...
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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