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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... movement of eternal return. I met him again, in 2006, in that liminal space that marks the split between the work and its unpublished remains, a split that is itself in a constant process of transformation with the ongoing production of ...
... movement of eternal return. I met him again, in 2006, in that liminal space that marks the split between the work and its unpublished remains, a split that is itself in a constant process of transformation with the ongoing production of ...
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... movement, critiquing it on the grounds that it denies the reality of mental illness.45 The most famous philosophical critique of Foucault has come from an equally famous critic of Enlightenment thinking, Jacques Derrida, who, especially ...
... movement, critiquing it on the grounds that it denies the reality of mental illness.45 The most famous philosophical critique of Foucault has come from an equally famous critic of Enlightenment thinking, Jacques Derrida, who, especially ...
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... movements.”48 Other philosophically oriented interpretations of Madness read it as the beginning of a progress narrative over the course of which Foucault will overcome some of the problems of this early work. Dreyfus and Rabinow, in ...
... movements.”48 Other philosophically oriented interpretations of Madness read it as the beginning of a progress narrative over the course of which Foucault will overcome some of the problems of this early work. Dreyfus and Rabinow, in ...
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... movement that puts into question the opposition between depth and surface itself. Those readers of Foucault who have only seen the tragic, deep, repressive dimension of Madness are missing Foucault's intervention into that binary logic ...
... movement that puts into question the opposition between depth and surface itself. Those readers of Foucault who have only seen the tragic, deep, repressive dimension of Madness are missing Foucault's intervention into that binary logic ...
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... movement that Deleuze calls an “unformed element of forces.”58 Less abstractly, if extension refers to the ensemble of concrete or abstract subjects or objects to which a concept, proposition, or relation applies, coextension describes ...
... movement that Deleuze calls an “unformed element of forces.”58 Less abstractly, if extension refers to the ensemble of concrete or abstract subjects or objects to which a concept, proposition, or relation applies, coextension describes ...
Efni
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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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