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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.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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... sexual awakening, I felt excluded, not so much rejected, but belonging to society's shadow. It's all the more a problem when you discover it for yourself. All of this was very quickly transformed into a kind of psychiatric threat: if ...
... sexual awakening, I felt excluded, not so much rejected, but belonging to society's shadow. It's all the more a problem when you discover it for yourself. All of this was very quickly transformed into a kind of psychiatric threat: if ...
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... Sexuality One as the doubling of sexuality in Madness. More specifically, I view that doubling of sexuality as a lens for reconceptualizing Foucault's lifelong interest in subjectivity as subjectivation. Conceived in this way, all of ...
... Sexuality One as the doubling of sexuality in Madness. More specifically, I view that doubling of sexuality as a lens for reconceptualizing Foucault's lifelong interest in subjectivity as subjectivation. Conceived in this way, all of ...
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... sexuality have ignored sexuality in Foucault. Quite the contrary. But it is to say that almost without exception queer attention has gone to those books by Foucault that contain the word sexuality in their title, namely, the three ...
... sexuality have ignored sexuality in Foucault. Quite the contrary. But it is to say that almost without exception queer attention has gone to those books by Foucault that contain the word sexuality in their title, namely, the three ...
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... sexual otherness is created and reproduced. Again and again, as I move deeper into Madness, I will return to Foucault's 1984 question: “Why [have] we made sexuality into a moral experience?” Madness has much to offer in answering that ...
... sexual otherness is created and reproduced. Again and again, as I move deeper into Madness, I will return to Foucault's 1984 question: “Why [have] we made sexuality into a moral experience?” Madness has much to offer in answering that ...
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... sexuality that has become the common fare of queer theory. As I will argue at greater length in later chapters, the ... sexual awakening . . . when you discover it for yourself. . . if you're not like everyone else, it's because you're ...
... sexuality that has become the common fare of queer theory. As I will argue at greater length in later chapters, the ... sexual awakening . . . when you discover it for yourself. . . if you're not like everyone else, it's because you're ...
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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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