{"id":2825,"date":"2009-04-09T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2009-04-09T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T19:50:18","slug":"stephen-white-being-as-potentiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/04\/09\/stephen-white-being-as-potentiality\/","title":{"rendered":"stephen white being as potentiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White, Stephen K. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory<\/span>. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Butler speaks of &#8220;fundamentally more capacious, generous, and &#8216;unthreatened&#8217; bearings of the self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing in Butler&#8217;s ontology with which the ethical idea of <em>generosity toward becoming <\/em>resonates, draws sustenance. &#8230; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White, Stephen K. Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2000. Butler speaks of &#8220;fundamentally more capacious, generous, and &#8216;unthreatened&#8217; bearings of the self.&#8221; There is nothing in Butler&#8217;s ontology with which the ethical idea of generosity toward becoming resonates, draws sustenance. &#8230; It is world of pressures, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/04\/09\/stephen-white-being-as-potentiality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;stephen white being as potentiality&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","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=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}