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Also Moya Lloyd (2007) sees that the Hegelian themes of dialectics and of Lordship and Bondage are important to Butler, and that these themes run through all of Butler´s work. … the Butlerian ek-static subjectivity does not engage with the whole logic of Hegel´s dialectical system. In short, whereas in Hegel the encounter between the subject and the Other leads into a “higher” knowledge of oneself and the world, in Butler any new knowledge constitutes a new form of error. Butler´s ek-static subject is a subject who constantly engages in a “selfloss”. Lloyd writes, importantly, that this is due to Butler´s suspending the narrative in PhS before the journeying consciousness encounters reason or spirit. Lloyd writes that this “suspension of the narrative” is important …  Lloyd writes that Butler rejects the idea of full dialectical synthesis and that, in this sense, her work is much closer to that of Foucault and Derrida. “For she, like them, holds on to the idea of the critical force of negativity but refuses to link that force to the idea of a dialectic that retains the “power of synthesis”, in other words, she subscribes…to what what might be called a non-synthetic dialectic. (Lloyd 2007, 19) Lloyd writes that in non-synthetic dialectic, difference cannot be incorporated into identity, as, she says, Hegel had assumed. Instead, particular differences, whether historical or linguistic, are insuperable.

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