HUM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Butler
5 Mar 2016
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Subject of language giving an account of oneself. Opacity of the self: social structure, relation to the other. Judith butler ethics as constructive incompleteness and exposure to the other . Schmitt: sovereignty and the law founded on exception. Benjamin: the exception has become the rule. Agamben: concentration camp as paradigmatic manifestation of biopolitics founded on violence itself: reveals the status of law, release of ethics from nations of responsibility and guilt. Ethics of testimony: bearing witness to that for which one cannot bear witness. Musselaman limit figure of the human and inhuman. I come into being every time i am called upon by society: you have to pay taxes: i am a good citizen we are subjects by responding when we are called upon. Butler: exposure to another: bottling oneself out there, possibility of being wounded, social bond we are all interlaced.
