Vlieghe, Joris (2014) Foucault, Butler and corporeal experience. Taking social critique beyond phenomenology and judgment. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 40 (10). pp. 1019-1035. ISSN 0191-4537
Preview |
Text
Vlieghe, J. Foucault, Butler and corporeal experience.pdf Download (156kB) | Preview |
Abstract
This article is concerned with the possibility of conceiving a form of social critique that has itslocusin the human body. Therefore I engage in a close reading of the (later) work of Butler which can be analysed as an elaboration of a Foucaldian critical ‘virtue’. In order to elaborate and to refine my ideas I go deeper into the criticisms McNay has uttered regarding the very impossibility of taking any distance from a given social or political order within a Foucaldian–Butlerian framework. I show that there is no need to have recourse to a phenomenological perspective, as McNay claims, in order to achieve ‘critical distance’. On the contrary, I argue that it is imperative to explore a register of bodily experience that entails selfexpropriation and which is linked to an attitude or ‘ethos’ that renounces any judgemental perspective.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information and Comments: | This is the author's post peer review version of an article, the final version of which is published in the Sage Publications journal Philosophy & Social Criticism |
| Keywords: | Judith Butler, corporeality, Michel Foucault, limit-experience, Lois McNay, social critique |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Susan Blagbrough |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2016 16:01 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2024 11:59 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/817 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Altmetric
Altmetric
