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Foucault, queer theory, and the discourse of desire
In Timothy O'Leary & Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 185 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Foucault and the Discourse of Sex‐Desire Power and Pleasure Reading Foucault on Pleasures Foucault's Use of Pleasure The Turn to Ancient Greco‐Roman Ethics Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasures? References.Author's Profile
Foucault, queer theory, and discourse of desire ‐ Why embrace an ethics of pleasures Foucault defending ‐ philosophical nature of his genealogical inquiry into the desiring subject Foucault's willingness, embracing personal and transformative dimension of historico‐philosophical practice ‐ a twist Foucault, homosexuals could play a role in moving beyond identity politics ‐ creating new forms of sexual subjectivity homosexuality, eccentric standpoint in social field ‐ creating alternative forms of life and self‐understanding Foucault and discourse of sex‐desire ‐ perversion, incorporated into individual with “homosexual” as a type The History of Sexuality, ‐ Foucault's enigmatic appeal to “bodies and pleasures” Foucault and psychoanalytic thought ‐ causal connections, erotic pursuits of bodily pleasure and social and political lives Freud describing pleasure as cessation of tension ‐ Nietzsche understood pleasure as increased feeling of power Foucault reframing history of sexua
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