The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler's Tthought
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In this paper we propose to look into different meanings of livability and life in Judith
butler’s thought. Although crucial for her early work (she points to it in her 1999 Introduction to
Gender Trouble), the concept of livability as such emerges more often and in a more pronounced
manner in her later books (from Undoing Gender and Precarious life to Towards a
Performative Theory of Assembly). Our main question is: what is the thread that runs through
different concepts of life in butler’s work? What are the links between abject, unlivable, precarious,
ungrievable, jettisoned and dispossessed life? this raises further questions the question of
gradation of livability (which life matters and ‘how much’, and how to think this quantifiability
of something so unquantifiable); and the question of universality (all lives matter). these
questions obviously need to take into account the terms under which a life is qualified and counted
as livable. such conditions encompass the norm...s that organize the possibility of recognition and
the orders of recognizability and differential allocation of humanness. they encompass the
ways in which we are constituted politically, but also in which this ‘we’ is social and bodily. the
question of livable life is thus very much entangled with the issue of (individual) agency, but
also with what we as agents require “in order to maintain and reproduce the conditions of (our)
own livability” (Undoing Gender 2004: 39).
Keywords:
life / livability of life / bodily ontology / grievable life / jettisoned life / precarious LifeSource:
Isegoria. Revista de filosofia moral y politica, 2017, 56, 169-185Funding / projects:
- Studying climate change and its influence on environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation (RS-43007)
DOI: 10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.08
ISSN: 1130-2097
WoS: 000415698700009
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85022027398
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IFDTTY - JOUR AU - Zaharijević, Adriana AU - Milutinović Bojanić, Sanja PY - 2017 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/1414 AB - In this paper we propose to look into different meanings of livability and life in Judith butler’s thought. Although crucial for her early work (she points to it in her 1999 Introduction to Gender Trouble), the concept of livability as such emerges more often and in a more pronounced manner in her later books (from Undoing Gender and Precarious life to Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly). Our main question is: what is the thread that runs through different concepts of life in butler’s work? What are the links between abject, unlivable, precarious, ungrievable, jettisoned and dispossessed life? this raises further questions the question of gradation of livability (which life matters and ‘how much’, and how to think this quantifiability of something so unquantifiable); and the question of universality (all lives matter). these questions obviously need to take into account the terms under which a life is qualified and counted as livable. such conditions encompass the norms that organize the possibility of recognition and the orders of recognizability and differential allocation of humanness. they encompass the ways in which we are constituted politically, but also in which this ‘we’ is social and bodily. the question of livable life is thus very much entangled with the issue of (individual) agency, but also with what we as agents require “in order to maintain and reproduce the conditions of (our) own livability” (Undoing Gender 2004: 39). T2 - Isegoria. Revista de filosofia moral y politica T1 - The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler's Tthought IS - 56 SP - 169 EP - 185 DO - 10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.08 ER -
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Zaharijević, A.,& Milutinović Bojanić, S.. (2017). The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler's Tthought. in Isegoria. Revista de filosofia moral y politica(56), 169-185. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.08
Zaharijević A, Milutinović Bojanić S. The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler's Tthought. in Isegoria. Revista de filosofia moral y politica. 2017;(56):169-185. doi:10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.08 .
Zaharijević, Adriana, Milutinović Bojanić, Sanja, "The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler's Tthought" in Isegoria. Revista de filosofia moral y politica, no. 56 (2017):169-185, https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.08 . .