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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... has been missed, by admirers and critics alike, has been the importance of History of Madness as part of Foucault's lifelong project to rethink sexuality as a category of moral and political exclusion. So while 24 introduction.
... has been missed, by admirers and critics alike, has been the importance of History of Madness as part of Foucault's lifelong project to rethink sexuality as a category of moral and political exclusion. So while 24 introduction.
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... exclusion. So while Jean Khalfa's comment, in his introduction to the 2006 English translation of Foucault's work, that the “History of Madness has yet to be read” (M xiii) seems a bit overstated, it is true that something crucial has ...
... exclusion. So while Jean Khalfa's comment, in his introduction to the 2006 English translation of Foucault's work, that the “History of Madness has yet to be read” (M xiii) seems a bit overstated, it is true that something crucial has ...
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... exclusion of madness from the cogito in the Meditations has become legendary.46 As Edward Said and others have pointed out in their analyses of the DerridaFoucault dispute over Descartes, the disagreement hinges on their differing ...
... exclusion of madness from the cogito in the Meditations has become legendary.46 As Edward Said and others have pointed out in their analyses of the DerridaFoucault dispute over Descartes, the disagreement hinges on their differing ...
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... exclusion and confinement he describes in Madness are not simply textual or linguistic structures but the result of institutional, political, and historical forces as well. These forces inhabit what Winnubst calls a Foucauldian “space ...
... exclusion and confinement he describes in Madness are not simply textual or linguistic structures but the result of institutional, political, and historical forces as well. These forces inhabit what Winnubst calls a Foucauldian “space ...
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... exclusion. Madness is not, as John Caputo claims, only “a vertical plumbing of the dark sedimented depths from which homo psychologicus emerges” (239), the relentless disclosure of a “great motionless structurelying beneath the surface ...
... exclusion. Madness is not, as John Caputo claims, only “a vertical plumbing of the dark sedimented depths from which homo psychologicus emerges” (239), the relentless disclosure of a “great motionless structurelying beneath the surface ...
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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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