{"id":2645,"date":"2009-03-31T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:10:53","slug":"thiem-butler-dispossession-by-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/31\/thiem-butler-dispossession-by-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"thiem butler dispossession by norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiem, Annika. <em>Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy and Critical Responsibility<\/em>. New York: Fordham UP, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Butler approaches the unlinking of responsibility and accountability differently from Levinas, as for her <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">the constitutive opacity that disorients the perspective of the &#8220;I&#8221; stems from both the dispossession of the &#8220;I&#8221; by virtue of social norms and a kind of primary relationality to others<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibility as accountability is brought into crisis by Butler, as the &#8220;I&#8221; can never fully know and adequately narrate and account for either its origins or the origins of its actions. The dimension of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">social dispossession of the &#8220;I&#8221; that undercuts the possibility of attaining and producing full self-knowledge is that this &#8220;I&#8221; is never anyone&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8221; alone<\/span>, and as such &#8230; the <strong>&#8220;first-person perspective&#8221; is always bound by, interrupted, and dispossessed by the social norms that confer intelligibility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This interruption and dispossession of my perspective AS MINE can take place in different ways. There is the operation of a norm, invariably social, that conditions what will and will not be a recognizable account, exemplified in the fact that <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">I am used by the norm precisely to the degree that I use it (Giving 36) (110)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green; font-weight: bold;\">This dispossession by social norms is precisely that which I can never render transparent to myself as I speak, because I can make myself understood \u2014 paradoxically \u2014 only insofar as I undergo this dispossession, which cannot be made into a narrative or an account of the &#8220;I.&#8221;<\/span> (110)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiem, Annika. Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy and Critical Responsibility. New York: Fordham UP, 2008. Butler approaches the unlinking of responsibility and accountability differently from Levinas, as for her the constitutive opacity that disorients the perspective of the &#8220;I&#8221; stems from both the dispossession of the &#8220;I&#8221; by virtue of social norms and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/31\/thiem-butler-dispossession-by-norms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;thiem butler dispossession by norms&#8221;<\/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":[78,138,38,55,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-butlerethics","category-ethics","category-normative","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","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=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}