Mythmaking as a feminist strategy
Rosi Braidotti's political myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Kjellgren (0000-0003-3141-1905, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-80 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700119881307 |
| OpenAlex | W2981183274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article makes visible some of the premises that underlie Rosi Braidotti's use of (political) myth. Focusing on some well-known characteristics of postmodernity, as well as the development of a new philosophy of subjectivity, I account for the divergence between Simone de Beauvoir, who thought of myth as a severe hindrance to the subject-becoming of women, and postmodern feminists, such as Donna Haraway and Braidotti, who represent a more affirmative stance. Through pinning down both similarities and differences between Haraway and Braidotti, I demonstrate that postmodern feminists might still promote mythmaking for dissimilar reasons. I argue that Braidotti, in contrast to Haraway, approaches myth from a horizon partly shaped by an anti-rationalist or 'demonic' philosophical tradition, whose chief representative is Friedrich Nietzsche. By studying the argument delivered by the latter in defence of myth, I extract a conceptual distinction between the 'Apolline' and the 'Dionysiac' aspects of mythmaking, by which it becomes possible to further qualify Braidotti's philosophy of political myth
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |