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SOCIAL ONTOLOGY: BUTLER VIA ARENDT VIA LOIDOLT
SOCIAL ONTOLOGY: BUTLER VIA ARENDT VIA LOIDOLT

Author(s): Adriana Zaharijević
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Social psychology and group interaction, Political Essay, Societal Essay, Book-Review, Ontology
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Judith Butler; social ontology; spaces of meaning; private; public

Summary/Abstract: This short contribution is written on the occasion of the book discussion of Sophie Loidolt’s Phenomenology of Plurality: Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity (2018) at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. It presents an attempt to read the two key notions Loidolt elaborates in her book – spaces of meaning and spaces of the public and private – from a critical perspective offered by Judith Butler’s taking up of Arendt’s work. Offering Butler’s conception of social ontology through several major points of contestation with Arendt, I argue against an all too simple reduction of her understanding of the political and normativity to poststructuralist ones.

  • Issue Year: 31/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 146-154
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English
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