Normal Now
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Оглавление
Mark G. E. Kelly. Normal Now
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
Epigraph
NORMAL NOW. Individualism as Conformity
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes
1 Genealogy
Normality as Normative
Normalization
What’s in a Norm?
New Norms
Method
Notes
2 New Norms
The Old Norms
Individualism
Success
American Christianity
Enjoy
Universalization
Notes
3 Politics
Normalization
Trump as Abnormal
Trump as Normal
Political Ideology as Norm
Notes
4 Sex
Sexuality
Celibacy
Monogamy
Consent
Queer
Gender
Identity
Notes
5 Life
Anxiety
Diet
Epidemiology
Death
Artifice
Notes
6 Law
Guilty
Sin
Psych-
Perfectionism
Divergence
Notes
7 Difference
Diversity
Differential Abnormalization
Justice
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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Only one truth appears before our eyes: wealth, fertility and sweet strength in all its insidious universality. In contrast, we are unaware of the prodigious machinery of the will to truth, with its vocation of exclusion.
Michel Foucault, ‘The Orders of Discourse’
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This understanding of what a norm is, I believe, that which is operative in both Canguilhem and Foucault. However, neither of them cares explicitly to define this term, despite its crucialness, supplying clear definitions being considered somewhat gauche in twentieth-century French philosophy. Foucault does, however, say the following:
Normalization consists first of all in positing a model, an optimal model that is constructed in terms of a certain result, and the operation of … normalization consists in trying to get people, movements, and actions to conform to this model, the normal being precisely that which can conform to this norm, and the abnormal that which is incapable of conforming to the norm. In other words, it is not the normal and the abnormal that is fundamental and primary in … normalization, it is the norm. That is, there is an originally prescriptive character of the norm and the determination and the identification of the normal and the abnormal becomes possible in relation to this posited norm.13
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