White, Stephen K. Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2000.
Butler speaks of “fundamentally more capacious, generous, and ‘unthreatened’ bearings of the self.”
There is nothing in Butler’s ontology with which the ethical idea of generosity toward becoming resonates, draws sustenance. … It is world of pressures, demands, insistences, a world in which one is hard pressed to see any ontological prefiguration of that virtue of generosity upon which her ethical-political hopes so crucially turn.