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Lynn Huffer&apos;s <i>Mad For Foucault</i>: An Analysis of Historical Eros?

Lynn Huffer's Mad For Foucault: An Analysis of Historical Eros? Lynn Huffer’s Mad For Foucault An Analysis of Historical Eros? Laur a Hengehold Ma d f or Fouc au lt is a remarkably beautiful book balanced on the edges bet ween the personal, the impersonal, and the public and reflected through Foucault’s own struggles to establish those divides. Huffer’s goal in Mad for Foucault is to draw scholarly attention to the emotional and ethical content of Foucault’s writing, as well as to assess the risks of queer theory’s dependence on dialectics and psychoanalytic theory. Reading History of Sexuality I in light of History of Madness, she argues, renders the ethical aspects of Foucault’s early project clear and reveals the continuit y with his later work on ethics, putting the central concerns of queer theor y in a different light. But this continuity is only visible through attention to the lyrical force resulting from tensions between these edges, which also separate genders and epochs, as if Las Meninas were to draw the viewer’s gaze toward a fractured mirror rather than a sovereign one. The elements of History of Sexuality I that have been most important for the queer theorists Huffer engages are Foucault’s attempt to date the shifts from a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press

Lynn Huffer&apos;s <i>Mad For Foucault</i>: An Analysis of Historical Eros?

Hengehold, Laura.
philoSOPHIA , Volume 1 (2) – Jun 5, 2012
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Lynn Huffer’s Mad For Foucault An Analysis of Historical Eros? Laur a Hengehold Ma d f or Fouc au lt is a remarkably beautiful book balanced on the edges bet ween the personal, the impersonal, and the public and reflected through Foucault’s own struggles to establish those divides. Huffer’s goal in Mad for Foucault is to draw scholarly attention to the emotional and ethical content of Foucault’s writing, as well as to assess the risks of queer theory’s dependence on dialectics and psychoanalytic theory. Reading History of Sexuality I in light of History of Madness, she argues, renders the ethical aspects of Foucault’s early project clear and reveals the continuit y with his later work on ethics, putting the central concerns of queer theor y in a different light. But this continuity is only visible through attention to the lyrical force resulting from tensions between these edges, which also separate genders and epochs, as if Las Meninas were to draw the viewer’s gaze toward a fractured mirror rather than a sovereign one. The elements of History of Sexuality I that have been most important for the queer theorists Huffer engages are Foucault’s attempt to date the shifts from a

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Published: Jun 5, 2012

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