Subjected Subjects? On Judith Butler's Paradox of Interpellation.
Judith Butler's theory of the constitution of subjectivity conceptualizes the subject as a performative materialization of its social environment. In her theory Butler utilizes Louis Althusser's notion of interpellation, and she critiques the constitutive paradoxes to which its tautological framing...
| Publicado en: | Hypatia Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 881 - 898 |
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Cambridge University Press
Nov2012
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