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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 x
... contexts and consequences, acts and their traces, the sharp thrust of the present and the percussive repetitions of a past remembered. It is also, ultimately, a small explosion, one of many object-events destined to disappear: “I think ...
... contexts and consequences, acts and their traces, the sharp thrust of the present and the percussive repetitions of a past remembered. It is also, ultimately, a small explosion, one of many object-events destined to disappear: “I think ...
Síða xii
... contexts. In this way, the book's truth-effects ripple through the world like rings on water, as the light-bringing ... context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the explosive doubling of the book-event points to the complexity of ...
... contexts. In this way, the book's truth-effects ripple through the world like rings on water, as the light-bringing ... context of queer theory. Foucault's picture of the explosive doubling of the book-event points to the complexity of ...
Síða xv
... context. My analysis of Madness begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of psychoanalysis and asking, more specifically, about the question of ethics as it relates to sexual experience. Providing an alternative ...
... context. My analysis of Madness begins where Eribon ends, by looking more closely at the critique of psychoanalysis and asking, more specifically, about the question of ethics as it relates to sexual experience. Providing an alternative ...
Síða xvi
... context that Foucault calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of self-fashioning is a worthy one. But I propose reading Foucault from a different angle and under a different light. Specifically, in order to grapple ...
... context that Foucault calls freedom. This familiar reading of a Foucauldian ethics of self-fashioning is a worthy one. But I propose reading Foucault from a different angle and under a different light. Specifically, in order to grapple ...
Síða 6
... context, it was hard for me to put my feminist and antiracist worries aside and embrace Foucault. And yet, despite the problems, over the course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became more and more ...
... context, it was hard for me to put my feminist and antiracist worries aside and embrace Foucault. And yet, despite the problems, over the course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became more and more ...
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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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