Strange eros: Foucault, ethics, and the historical a priori

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• 作者：Lynne Huffer
• 关键词：Foucault ; Eros ; Ethics ; Carson ; Archive
• 刊名：Continental Philosophy Review
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：49
• 期：1
• 页码：103-114
• 全文大小：368 KB
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• 作者单位：Lynne Huffer (1)
  
  1. Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Phenomenology
  Philosophy of Man
  Political Philosophy
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1103

文摘

This essay explores Foucault’s conception of the historical a priori through the lens of an archival ethics of eros. Highlighting the paradoxical nature of the historical a priori as both constitutive and contingent, it harnesses the temporal dynamism of experiences of the untimely as erotic. Drawing on the work of Anne Carson, the essay brings out the strangeness of eros as an ancient Greek word that remains unintelligible to us. That strangeness signals an ethics of dissonant attunement to the untimeliness of the historical a priori. Such an ethics of eros names those experiences of connection and rupture that both bind and unbind us in relation to a biopolitical present that is radically unstable. Reading eros as strange thus ultimately allows us to find resources for an ethics of self-transformation in Foucault’s reflections on the temporal instability that the historical a priori names.