Foucault's Strange Eros / / Lynne Huffer.
What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject. Focusing on the ethi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface: Prowling -- Introduction: Foucault’s Strange Eros -- 1. Eros Is Strange: Foucault, the Outside, and the Historical A Priori (Fragments -- 2. Ars Erotica: Poetic Cuts in the Archives of Infamy -- 3. Erotic Time: Unreason, Eros, and Foucault’s Evil Genius -- 4. Prowling Eros: Carriers of Light in the Panopticon -- 5. Now Again (δεῦτε): Foucault, Wittig, Sappho -- Coda: Sapphic -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject. Focusing on the ethical implications of this mode of thought, Huffer shows how Foucault’s poetic archival method offers a way to counter the disciplining of speech.At the heart of this method is a conception of the archive as Sapphic: the past’s remains are, like Sappho’s verses, hole-ridden, scattered, and dissolved by time. Listening for eros across fragmented texts, Huffer stages a series of encounters within an archive of literary and theoretical readings: the eroticization of violence in works by Freud and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the historicity of madness in the Foucault-Derrida debate, the afterlives of Foucault’s antiprison activism, and Monique Wittig’s Sapphic materialism. Through these encounters, Foucault’s Strange Eros conceives of ethics as experiments in living that work poetically to make the present strange. Crafting fragments that dissolve into Sapphic brackets, Huffer performs the ethics she describes in her own practice of experimental writing. Foucault’s Strange Eros hints at the self-hollowing speech of an eros that opens a space for the strange. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231552011 9783110710977 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704747 9783110704532 |
DOI: | 10.7312/huff19714 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lynne Huffer. |