Eliz Grosz: … you buy into ontological commitments whenever you make certain political commitments.<\/p>\n
D Cornell: You inevitably buy into ontological commitments when you advocate programs of reform. I don’t think you can avoid it, which is why anytime you use an aesthetic idea to make sense to reason, you paradoxically try to show that what reason has made sense of is not fully adequate to its promise. I was very influenced by Reiner Schurmann in seeing the paradox in my representation of political ideals, even as aesthetic ideas. But buying into them and knowing that you buy into them and knowing that any representational device you use in this sense of aesthetic idea carries
\nwithin it that buying into them is very different from actually thinking that you are doing something more philosophical by turning gender, engendering, or sexual difference into a way of thinking about the truth of Being in a particular historical era.<\/p>\n
JB: Indeed, I would want to know from Liz and Pheng if it’s the case that the institutionalization of one’s feminist goals involves making ontological commitments about what women are or what the feminine is and how, at the same time, the perspective of the future anterior is maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eliz Grosz: … you buy into ontological commitments whenever you make certain political commitments. D Cornell: You inevitably buy into ontological commitments when you advocate programs of reform. I don’t think you can avoid it, which is why anytime you use an aesthetic idea to make sense to reason, you paradoxically try to show that … Continue reading “Butler ontological commitments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-ontology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}