Judith Butler in the Hall of Mirrors: Poststructuralist Feminism as the Rhetoric of Psychosis

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Neil Watson
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제119호, 229~245쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.30

영문 초록

Within the current epoch, questions about the politics of identity tend to take place within wider poststucturalist paradigms that convey the illusion of tacit objectivity. Futhermore, their linguistic-idealism character forecloses and displaces the very 'material reality' its constitution is dependent upon. This article will critique one particular exponent of this theoretical practice, Judith Butler, in her influential works, Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter. The article is not so much interested in poststructuralist feminism per se but in illuminating the 'pre-ontological' foundation of the essentially Foucauldian paradigm Butler employs, demonstrating how its relativistic character and totalizing effect runs counter to the very cultural possibility that it wants to promote.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. The Hall of Mirrors

3. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Judith Butler poststructuralism paradigm discourse materiality reality idealism language culture