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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... Ironically, given my subsequent feminist misgivings about his work, I met Foucault through the American channels of women's studies. And although I didn't know it at the time (reading Rubin, Butler, and Sedgwick, as I did, virtually hot ...
... Ironically, given my subsequent feminist misgivings about his work, I met Foucault through the American channels of women's studies. And although I didn't know it at the time (reading Rubin, Butler, and Sedgwick, as I did, virtually hot ...
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... ironically, precisely in those places the Foucault machine has consigned to the silence of the margins. Inspired by my encounter with the unpublished Foucault archive, the interludes trace a “personal” story about Foucault and Madness ...
... ironically, precisely in those places the Foucault machine has consigned to the silence of the margins. Inspired by my encounter with the unpublished Foucault archive, the interludes trace a “personal” story about Foucault and Madness ...
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... ironic structure of impossibility that governs this commitment to the “thing in becoming” repeats what we can now see as the ironic structure of splitting with which I opened this introduction, the structure that says: it's there but ...
... ironic structure of impossibility that governs this commitment to the “thing in becoming” repeats what we can now see as the ironic structure of splitting with which I opened this introduction, the structure that says: it's there but ...
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... irony. But that irony cannot be the “final word,” since to stop there would be to construct another position of mastery. Thus the force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but fragile ...
... irony. But that irony cannot be the “final word,” since to stop there would be to construct another position of mastery. Thus the force that animates my reading of a split Foucault can best be described as the generative but fragile ...
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... irony to guide my readings of the oppositions that emerge in my approach to Foucault through the lens of History of Madness: the opposition between the 1961 and 1972 prefaces, the redoubling of Madness's exploration of sexuality in ...
... irony to guide my readings of the oppositions that emerge in my approach to Foucault through the lens of History of Madness: the opposition between the 1961 and 1972 prefaces, the redoubling of Madness's exploration of sexuality in ...
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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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