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Norms, vision and violence: Judith Butler on the politics of legibility.
- Source :
- Contemporary Political Theory; May2014, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p130-148, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Judith Butler's meditations on precarity have received considerable attention in recent years. This article proposes that an undertheorized strain of her argument offers productive resources for theorizing violence. The question extends beyond material acts, to ask how certain groups are rendered eligible for heightened, regularized violence - and, by extension, how liberal subjects are rendered complicit with policies at odds with their universalist commitments. At stake is a politics of sensibility that complicates and enriches juridico-institutionalist models. That said, when Butler's account is brought to bear on a wider range of cases, it encounters a set of questions it is not prepared to answer on its own terms. Accordingly, I propose some directions the argument would need to be expanded to do justice to its own normative intuitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- VIOLENCE
SOCIAL norms
PRECARITY
WELFARE economics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14708914
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94991312
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2013.15