Lynne Huffer 
Mad for Foucault 
Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

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 Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault’s, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Preface: Why We Need Madness
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mad for Foucault
1. How We Became Queer
First Interlude: Nietzsche’s Dreadful Attendant
2. Queer Moralities
Second Interlude: Wet Dreams
3. Unraveling the Queer Psyche
Third Interlude: Of Meteors and Madness
4. A Queer Nephew
Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism
5. A Political Ethic of Eros
Postlude: A Fool’s Laughter
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Sobre o autor

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and author of
Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex;
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference; and
Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing.