From Phenomenology to Genealogy : Judith Butler’s Early Thought of the Body

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  • 現象学からフーコーへ : 初期ジュディス・バトラーにおける身体論の変遷
  • ゲンショウ　ガク　カラ　フーコー　ヘ　ショキ　ジュディス　バトラー　ニ　オケル　シンタイ　ロン　ノ　ヘンセン

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Abstract

This paper examines Judith Butler’s thought regarding the body in the 1980s. Her theoretical perspective in Gender Trouble (1990) which has become a synonym for Butler, was not created at once. It was gradually formed thorough her speculations during the 1980s. In this paper, we show how her theory in Gender Trouble had been created through her thought in the 1980s. For Butler in the 1980s, the primary problem is the body, where gender is a facet of the problem. What is the body? How should we approach the body? These questions are the problems Butler engages in the 1980s. We can trace her approach to the body in the 1980s as the turn “from phenomenology to genealogy.” In turn, her confrontation with phenomenology played a very important part in the establishment of her theory in Gender Trouble. Butler fi rst found phenomenology a method for approaching the body, redefining genealogy as theorized by Foucault, thorough her later critique of phenomenology, at least in 1989. In this paper, we illustrate the role played by phenomenology in Butler’s thought in the 1980s, and how she shifts from phenomenology to genealogy.

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 36 103-117, 2015-03-31

    Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

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  • CRID
    1390009224805409408
  • NII Article ID
    120005550109
  • NII Book ID
    AN0020011X
  • DOI
    10.18910/51240
  • HANDLE
    11094/51240
  • ISSN
    02865149
  • Text Lang
    ja
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    • CiNii Articles

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