Foucault, Queer Theory, and the Discourse of Desire

Foucault and Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 185-203

  Sawicki, Jana ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foucault and discourse of sex desire perversion, incorporated into individual with "homosexual" as a type; Foucault and psychoanalytic thought causal connections, erotic pursuits of bodily pleasure and social and political lives; Foucault defending philosophical nature of his genealogical inquiry into the desiring subject; Foucault reframing history of sexuality project including a genealogy of ancient Greek and Roman sexual ethics; 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; Foucault, queer theory, and discourse of desire Why embrace an ethics of pleasures; Freud describing pleasure as cessation of tension Nietzsche understood pleasure as increased feeling of power; Homosexuality, eccentric standpoint in social field creating alternative forms of life and self understanding; The History of Sexuality, Foucault's enigmatic appeal to "bodies and pleasures"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864693705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320091.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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