Judith Butler's post-Hegelian ethics and the problem with recognition

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ID4366948
AuthorsHannah Stark (0000-0002-2026-0294, University of Tasmania, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume15
Issue1
Pages89-100
Publication date2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700113512738
OpenAlexW2141312168
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited22

Judith Butler's recent work is exemplary of the trend in contemporary theory to consider ethics. Her deliberation over ethical questions, and the place of ethics in intellectual work, has undeniably intensified since September 11. This article will demonstrate, however, that this is a rendering explicit of what has always been implicit in her work. Rather than perceiving the ethical dimension of Butler's writings in her increasing interest in thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt, I contend that it is in her sustained interest in Hegel, and specifically in Hegelian recognition, that her work can be read as engaged with ethical concerns. This article highlights the growing critical concern with the prevalence of recognition in ethical theory and questions the possibility of theorising ethics outside of the recognition-paradigm

Deliberation · Epistemology · Ethical theory · Feminist ethics · Hegelianism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy

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