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- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- ISSN
- 2155-0905
Abstract
schol a r ly di a l o gu e On the Historicity of the Archive A Counter-Memory for Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault Shannon Winnubst Lynne Huffer likes to laugh. I haven’t known her very long and I don’t even know her very well, but this much I am certain of: the woman likes to laugh. Whether at amusing intellectual witticisms or truly boisterous, gut-splitting observations of life’s absurdities, Professor Huffer enjoys laughing. It comes as little surprise, then, that it is the ludic aspect, which is intimately connected to the erotic aspect, of Foucault’s work that she aims to rehabilitate in this remarkable, provocative, beautifully written, meticulously researched, and often funny book, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. This book is an unusual one. Replete with the intellectual rigor of archival research, subtle, nuanced challenges to accepted translations, critical historical contextualizations, and complex theorizing at the most abstract levels, it is— despite its own anxieties—an intensely academic undertaking. But at the same time, in one of many of its own doublings (the Deleuzian trope through which Huffer initiates her discussion of Foucault), it is also an intensely personal undertaking, shaped by several interludes of
Journal
philoSOPHIA – State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 5, 2012