Critical Analysis

Outline

This book renews a fundamental ethical practice, arguing forcefully that moral reflection can not be considered outside the social and political context in which it is made. If moral philosophy is by nature tend to idealize the subject, giving it a moral self considered too fast for granted, it is important to counter this trend by taking as its starting point the experience of unsurpassable relational character of each life. No life can not say to himself, managing to build the adequate story of the unfolding, or return to its emergence in the world. Which subtracts from it, it is not only the conditions of its birth and its development, but also the social forms that make it readable. Self-recognition by itself is incomplete, deficient. Located in the account of others, she is haunted by the forms of justification arising and complete to make any recognition procedure impossible. The report to another becomes constitutive of the impossible relationship with oneself. It is within this context of dispossession, urgent, according to Judith Butler, to conduct an inquiry into the conditions of possibility of a moral relationship to self and others that does not do violence to such a context but takes on the contrary considered. Because ethics is violently since it assumes the right to go beyond the specific contexts in which lives are placed to formulate universal prescriptions.

Author Overview

Judith Butler comes from a Jewish family and received a religious education. It is defined today as “Jewish anti-Zionist”. She is Professor, Chair Maxine Elliot in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Butler received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the Yale University in 1984, and his thesis was later published under the title Subject of Desire: Reflections Hegelian in twentieth-century France. In the late 1980s, she maintained various efforts poststructuralist in theory feminist western, with the aim of the interrogation, pre-suppositional terms Of feminism. For Butler, questioning the fundamental presuppositions of Western feminism meant the opening of feminism to theory Queer and Gender Studies , where she became an important figure in. She is a member of the sponsoring committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine whose work began March 4, 2009. Since October 2011, she was honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux III

Critical Analysis

In this paper the researcher is critically analyzing the Butler work on the topic: “Giving an account of one's self”. Butler interest was to answer a lively question that deserves our attention. Nest complexity in the question of identity, no doubt. The theory contemporary feminist thinking does not stop over and over again on this issue and from various different angles and viewpoints.

With Beauvoir, and this it is worthy to be retained, the question of identity was visibly character problematic. Was this a merit de Beauvoir and a great legacy for feminism posterior. It is the work of Judith Butler here, however, interests me. In particular because of his thinking over evidence of the importance and vital feminist ...