Polity, December 22nd, 1999
A guiding imperative of Judith Butler's thought is the commitment to "a problematizing suspension of the ontological." Drawing upon the momentum of both feminist and poststructuralist thought, she understands her task to be an "interrogation of the construction and circulation" of ontological claims. By this, she means an investigation of the multitude of ways in which notions of being have traditionally been construed as "pre-linguistic" and thus as having an uncontestable status in accounts of subjectivity, society and politics.(1) When an account is rooted in an "ontological essentialism," ...
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