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Article Dans Une Revue Philosophy and Social Criticism Année : 2011

Judith Butler’s “Not Particularly Postmodern Insight” of Recognition

Estelle Ferrarese

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Although Judith Butler regards recognition as the theme unifying her work, one finds a striking absence of dialogue between her and the authors of the normative theories of recognition – Honneth, Habermas, Ricoeur, etc. In the present article I seek to call into question this sentiment, shared by the two sides, of a radical theoretical heterogeneity. First I seek to show that the theory of performativity which Butler developed initially, contrary to all expectations, sets her relatively apart from the tradition to which she conforms (the French reading of Hegel), and brings her closer to the proposition represented by the normative theories of recognition in general, and that of Honneth in particular. Then I highlight how the recent modulations in her theory, through the appearance of the idea of a constitutive vulnerability, which enables her to found an ethics, undermine for once and for all the claim of irreducibility maintained by each of the two theories in relation to the other.
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halshs-01433835 , version 1 (16-01-2017)

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Estelle Ferrarese. Judith Butler’s “Not Particularly Postmodern Insight” of Recognition. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2011, 37 (7), pp.759-774. ⟨10.1177/0191453711410029⟩. ⟨halshs-01433835⟩
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