Post-Modernism vs. Identity Politics | Legendary Judith Butler Quotes

Описание: Philosopher Judith Butler rejected feminist identity politics. Butler states that feminism presupposes a prediscursive subject, a subject prior to any social construction. On the contrary, subjectivity exists only in and through our performance of discursiveness.

In positing a prediscursive identity, feminists claim to rely on a firm foundation for a political action. The identity claims to be totalizing to all who fall into said identity because it precedes there existence. However, such an identity is a fiction and open to great instability. Any politics which proceeds from such an assumption ultimately ends up excluding many of the very individuals it claims to represent. No matter how identities attempt to close themselves off, there is always an etcetera, a remainder, which the identity simply can’t account for.

Butler contends that the identity woman is not prior to the acts a women performs. On the contrary, identities are not the cause, but the effect of acts. This theoretical framework allows identities to always remain open, to evolve or adapt, for such identities are constituted on the performative acts of subjects.

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Citations:

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 2006.
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