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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. many fantasies that have never attained the colours of day. But it is, no doubt, a doubly impossible task, as it would require us to reconstitute the dust of this concrete pain ...
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory Lynne Huffer. many fantasies that have never attained the colours of day. But it is, no doubt, a doubly impossible task, as it would require us to reconstitute the dust of this concrete pain ...
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... never left him: “for twenty years now I've been worrying about my little mad ones, my little excluded ones, my little abnormals”: “mes petits fous, mes petits exclus, mes petits anormaux.”31 But why, exactly, Droit wants to know, did ...
... never left him: “for twenty years now I've been worrying about my little mad ones, my little excluded ones, my little abnormals”: “mes petits fous, mes petits exclus, mes petits anormaux.”31 But why, exactly, Droit wants to know, did ...
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... never to be uncovered, this book-event must finally “disappear” (M xxxviii) into “the series of events to which it belongs” (M xxxviii): events, Foucault reminds us, which “are far from being over” (M xxxviii). So perhaps this coup de ...
... never to be uncovered, this book-event must finally “disappear” (M xxxviii) into “the series of events to which it belongs” (M xxxviii): events, Foucault reminds us, which “are far from being over” (M xxxviii). So perhaps this coup de ...
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... never in a context, because both the subject and the context depend on a form of thinking whose origin by necessity escapes us. Like the chicken and the egg, we cannot dissociate the subject from the outside from which it purportedly ...
... never in a context, because both the subject and the context depend on a form of thinking whose origin by necessity escapes us. Like the chicken and the egg, we cannot dissociate the subject from the outside from which it purportedly ...
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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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