Foucault and Sedgwick
The Repressive Hypothesis Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12947360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynne Huffer (Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 20-40 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foucault Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.22439/fs.v0i14.3888 |
| OpenAlex | W1502223994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay examines the Foucauldian foundations of queer theory in the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. The essay argues that Sedgwick’s increasing disappointment with Foucault’s critique of the repressive hypothesis is in part produced by the slippery rhetoric of The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Specifically, Foucault’s use of free indirect discourse in that volume destabilizes both the theory of repression and the critique Foucault mounts against it, thereby rendering ambiguous any political promise his critique might seem to offer. Returning to the fraught relation between Foucault and Sedgwick, the essay concludes by reading Foucault and Sedgwick together through the lens of a reparative ethics in which the felt experience of knowing the world is also an experiment in new ways of living
Critical theory · Disappointment · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Rhetoric · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |