ISBN:
9783657715084
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
261.835
Keywords:
Theology
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Christianity
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Butler, Religion, and Theology -- Structure of the Book -- A Theology of Vulnerability -- Part A Butler's Philosophy -- Chapter I Preliminary Remarks -- 1 Butler's Understanding of Language and Her Style -- 2 Butler's Understanding of Theory, Object of Intellectual Interest, and Methodology -- 3 Butler as a Recognition Theorist -- Chapter II The Foundations of Butler's Philosophy -- 1 Power, Discourse, and Performativity -- Butler's Notion and Understanding of Discourse -- Performative Praxis: Citing, Repeating, Displacing -- 2 Gender, Norms, and Subject -- Butler's Concept of Norms -- Framework for Butler's Critique of the Subject -- Subjectivation and Gender Norms -- Butler's Response to Criticism of Her Gender Theory -- Resisting the Effects of Norms -- Philosophy of Language: Vulnerability, and Resistance through Language -- 3 Subjectivation as 'Subjection' -- From Gender Theory to a Theory of the Subject -- The Process of Subjectivation -- The Figure of the Trope -- The First Precondition of Subjectivation: the Desire to Exist -- The Second Precondition of Subjectivation: Matrix of Norms and Ideas of Identity -- Melancholy -- Resistance to Power -- Potentiality -- Resistance through Entanglement -- Structural Resistance as Work on the Conceptual Framework -- Chapter III Post-sovereign Subjects -- 1 The Other - Asymmetrical Intersubjectivity -- Readjustment of Recognition: Who Are You? -- Dependence on the Recognition of Others - the Ecstatic Subject -- Transformative Effects -- 2 Vulnerability and Precarity -- Alterity as Exposure to Others - the Vulnerable Subject -- Ontological Vulnerability - Precariousness -- Phenomenology of Vulnerability -- Real Danger - 'Precarity' -- 3 Reflexivity, the Capacity to Act, and Responsibility -- The Limits of Accountability -- Responsibility as Response.
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