PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Judith Butler, Ingroups And Outgroups, Co-Determination
17 Mar 2014
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Phil 242 - performative acts and gender constitution . Recall that phenomenology means (at least temporarily) setting aside what we think we know about external reality And understanding the world by first getting clear on how things seem or appear to us as we experience them. Butler starts with an idea (discussed by merleau-ponty and beauvoir) where having a body essentially means acting on the external world. (how does having hands" shape our experience: the world appears as manipulable) The same thing goes for others: we understand other people to have bodies by seeing them as potentially using those bodies to act on the world. Individual social roles: writing a law constitutes some people as criminals more complex sets of social roles: two members of a couple, plus a legally sanctioned. Other objects in social reality: basketball players create goals, victories, etc. by jointing accepting and following the rules.
