Law for Judith Butler: power, survival; transformation

In this essay, I intend to examine Judith Butler's ideas about law. The task is not trivial, since the philosopher wrote a lot about ethics and politics, but did not developed in details her ideas about the juridical field. I will try to organize her arguments systematically by proposing three...

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Autor: Fischer, Mariana Pimentel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
Repositorio:Perspectiva Filosófica (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.periodicos.ufpe.br:article/263326
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/263326
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:direito
poder
sobrevivência
transformação
performatividade
Power
law
survivability
transformation
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Sumario:In this essay, I intend to examine Judith Butler's ideas about law. The task is not trivial, since the philosopher wrote a lot about ethics and politics, but did not developed in details her ideas about the juridical field. I will try to organize her arguments systematically by proposing three figures in which the law is presented: power, survival and transformation. Considering that, since the beginning of her academic trajectory, Butler highlights the ambivalences of the juridical field; I will not define these three figures in a static mode; I will rather, reconstruct them based on emphases on certain roles that law may play in different contexts. I will try to show, in the end, that certain juridical norms can have a peculiar relationship with ethics, they ensure the right to question, including to contest and potentially undo the law itself.