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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... feminist-queer. But things are never simple. For Foucault himself has contributed to the feminist-queer split with which my own splittings started. Further, his role in that split in relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a ...
... feminist-queer. But things are never simple. For Foucault himself has contributed to the feminist-queer split with which my own splittings started. Further, his role in that split in relation to me— his role as my Foucault—has a ...
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... feminist critique of Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit ...
... feminist critique of Foucault. Nonetheless, I decided that I needed to understand Foucault's work more fully. My favorite Foucault was the middle Foucault, the one who has been most acknowledged in the Anglo-American context I inhabit ...
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... feminist ones, who have so profoundly transformed the American intellectual context, and for whom Foucault's work has been so crucial. Butler's most widely read book, Gender Trouble (1990), was only translated into French in 2005.12 A ...
... feminist ones, who have so profoundly transformed the American intellectual context, and for whom Foucault's work has been so crucial. Butler's most widely read book, Gender Trouble (1990), was only translated into French in 2005.12 A ...
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... feminist commitments kept me anchored in the world of activism even as I moved ever more deeply into the world of French high culture. During my sabbatical-year trip to France, I met Foucault in a kind of repetition of my initial ...
... feminist commitments kept me anchored in the world of activism even as I moved ever more deeply into the world of French high culture. During my sabbatical-year trip to France, I met Foucault in a kind of repetition of my initial ...
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... feminist reading of Foucault too easily dismisses Madness for its “tendency to essentialize a certain experience of alterity.”53 Agreeing with Habermas, McNay asserts that “it is impossible to attribute an a priori revolutionary force ...
... feminist reading of Foucault too easily dismisses Madness for its “tendency to essentialize a certain experience of alterity.”53 Agreeing with Habermas, McNay asserts that “it is impossible to attribute an a priori revolutionary force ...
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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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