Mad for Foucault
Subtitle: rethinking the foundations of queer theory
By: Lynne Huffer.
Series: Gender and culture series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780231149181; 9780231149198; 9780231520515
Subjects: Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984; Homosexuality; Postmodernism; Queer theory
Description: Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Why we need madness; title: Introduction: Mad for Foucault; title: How we became queer; title: First interlude : Nietzsche's dreadful attendant; title: Queer moralities; title: Second interlude: wet dreams; title: Unraveling the queer psyche; title: Third interlude: of meteors and madness; title: A queer nephew; title: Fourth interlude: a shameful lyricism; title: A political ethic of Eros; title: Postlude: A fool's laughter.