Dr Paul Giladi pg30@soas.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
This article has two aims: (i) to bring Judith Butler and Wilfrid Sellars into conversation; and (ii) to argue that Butler's poststructuralist critique of feminist identity politics has metaphilosophical potential, given her pragmatic parallel with Sellars's critique of conceptual analyses of knowledge. With regard to (i), I argue that Butler's objections to the definitional practice constitutive of certain ways of construing feminism is comparable to Sellars's critique of the analytical project geared toward providing definitions of knowledge. Specifically, I propose that moving away from a definition of woman to what one may call poststructuralist sites of woman parallels moving away from a definition of knowledge to a pragmatic account of knowledge as a recognizable standing in the normative space of reasons. With regard to (ii), I argue that the important parallels between Butler's poststructuralist feminism and Sellars's antirepresentationalist normative pragmatism about knowledge enable one to think of her poststructuralist feminism as mapping out pragmatic cognitive strategies and visions for doing philosophy. This article starts a conversation between two philosophers whom the literature has yet to fully introduce to each other.
Giladi, P. (2021). Butler and Postanalytic Philosophy. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 36(2), 276-301. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2021.16
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 19, 2021 |
Publication Date | Apr 19, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Sep 8, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 8, 2023 |
Print ISSN | 0887-5367 |
Electronic ISSN | 1527-2001 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 276-301 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2021.16 |
Publisher URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/butler-and-postanalytic-philosophy/C00B2203FFD5E9CF01AAAC3AA833023A |
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