PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Judith Butler, Intentionality, Social Change
10 Apr 2018
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The study of phenomena (structures, consciousness, first person view point) Philosophical study of structures of consciousness, as experienced from the first person view point. What is essential or necessary to having these experiences. Directedness of experience towards things in the world. Phenomenology: 4 claims: we always experience objects from a particular perspective, its dynamic and moving over time. Experiences of process: were participants in the world and not just spectators. Experience is always active and not passive, i see, you see. Its intentional we can choose to see or not to see: our perspectives are intersubjective and not private. She has looked at the ideals of gender embodiment in western societies. Part of what she"s saying is gender is a social construct that we created. If you"re a social constructivist, it"s like language. Butlers claim is that gender is constructed by repeated social performances. It is constructed by repeated social performances of it.
