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Philosopher Judith Butler’s writing is a cornerstone for the growing body of literature on precarity. Butler draws a critical distinction between ‘precariousness’ and ‘precarity’. She sees precariousness as a generalised human condition that stems from the fact that all humans are interdependent on each other and therefore all are ...
Nov 15, 2022 · From Precarious Life onwards, Judith Butler (2004a) offered a theory of precarity, which seems at odds with her work on performativity. It seems that the notion of the precarious put an end to the disputes on performativity, reflecting broader interests, which superseded – even suspended – gender troubles of the past.
- Adriana Zaharijević
Sep 7, 2015 · We turn to the philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler for insight into how gender performativity (acting and actions restricted by gender norms) affects identity and thus individual agency. Gender performativity underlies the prevailing conceptualisation of women in India as being lesser.
- Annamma Joy, Russell Belk, Rishi Bhardwaj
- 2015
Apr 21, 2018 · In her theorising from the last decade, Judith Butler combines Levinasian insights about the primacy of the other with psychoanalytic insights about the intersubjective formation of human beings to devise a post- Enlightenment, postmetaphysical ethics that – as she explains in the epigraph above – is supported by ‘a new bodily ontology ...
Oct 19, 2022 · Judith Butler’s work has been enormously influential and, at times, controversial, but it is grounded in a commitment to justice and equality. ... Butler calls this situation “precarity”.
Abstract. This chapter argues that Adorno’s concept of mediation is relevant for Judith Butler’s relational ethics. In response to the precarity of contemporary life, Butler develops an account of relationality that is a vital source for theorising ethics. However, I argue that Butler’s theorisation of responsibility lapses into a pre ...
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Feb 8, 2023 · The key critical idea of Judith Butler’s recent work is ‘differential precarity’: how the same network of social dependency that sustains our existence creates a divide between those for whom it proves protective and enabling and those for whom it implies precarious social existence.
