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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... object-event we call Foucault. Both lyricism and irony “happen” in my engagement with Foucault. And they happen most powerfully and specifically in his thinking about sexuality. I perceive the tension between them—most forcefully ...
... object-event we call Foucault. Both lyricism and irony “happen” in my engagement with Foucault. And they happen most powerfully and specifically in his thinking about sexuality. I perceive the tension between them—most forcefully ...
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... object-event that, as Foucault insisted in his 1972 preface, must evade the grip of “the person who wrote it” (M xxxviii) or, in this case, spoke it in conversation. Rather than being shut away as a shameful secret never to be uncovered ...
... object-event that, as Foucault insisted in his 1972 preface, must evade the grip of “the person who wrote it” (M xxxviii) or, in this case, spoke it in conversation. Rather than being shut away as a shameful secret never to be uncovered ...
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... object of 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 ...
... object of 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 ...
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... object—that normally guides us in our conception of ourselves as entities in a world. The coextensive subject is the exposure of the “I” as the result of an inward folding. Coextensivity is a concept that unfolds the “I” to reveal the ...
... object—that normally guides us in our conception of ourselves as entities in a world. The coextensive subject is the exposure of the “I” as the result of an inward folding. Coextensivity is a concept that unfolds the “I” to reveal the ...
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... objects to which a concept, proposition, or relation applies, coextension describes two or more ensembles that share the same extension. In Foucault, the coextension of two or more becomes the bounded multiplicity of a cartography that ...
... objects to which a concept, proposition, or relation applies, coextension describes two or more ensembles that share the same extension. In Foucault, the coextension of two or more becomes the bounded multiplicity of a cartography that ...
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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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