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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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 5
... course lectures, then it's yet another brilliant interpretation of his work. I admire all this discursive production, but it also overwhelms me. More problematically, like many feminists, for many years I was in a love-hate relationship ...
... course lectures, then it's yet another brilliant interpretation of his work. I admire all this discursive production, but it also overwhelms me. More problematically, like many feminists, for many years I was in a love-hate relationship ...
Síða 6
... course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became more and more important to me ... courses in lesbian and gay studies, sexual identities in literary texts, the history of sexuality, and queer theory ...
... course of my own process of becoming queer, getting to know Foucault better became more and more important to me ... courses in lesbian and gay studies, sexual identities in literary texts, the history of sexuality, and queer theory ...
Síða 9
... 1970s, some still unpublished courses, and, most important, the four-hundred-page typescript of an unpublished 1975 interview with Roger-Pol Droit. What I ended up finding was something I never expected: the capacity to introduction 9.
... 1970s, some still unpublished courses, and, most important, the four-hundred-page typescript of an unpublished 1975 interview with Roger-Pol Droit. What I ended up finding was something I never expected: the capacity to introduction 9.
Síða 21
... course of several sessions, the culmination of which would be its publication as a book. It appears that Foucault was dissatisfied with the results, refusing publication and returning the money he had received as an advance. Droit ...
... course of several sessions, the culmination of which would be its publication as a book. It appears that Foucault was dissatisfied with the results, refusing publication and returning the money he had received as an advance. Droit ...
Síða 22
... courses at the Collège de France, to say nothing of his interviews, radio addresses, and other lectures? Indeed, in his famous “What Is an Author?” (1969), Foucault asks about the limits of an author's “work”: Even when an individual ...
... courses at the Collège de France, to say nothing of his interviews, radio addresses, and other lectures? Indeed, in his famous “What Is an Author?” (1969), Foucault asks about the limits of an author's “work”: Even when an individual ...
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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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