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Metaphysics of the Excluded: On the Relationship Between Matter, Construction, and Reality in Butler and Kant

Metaphysics of the Excluded: On the Relationship Between Matter, Construction, and Reality in Butler and Kant

Döhrmann, Charlotte

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3658453486
ISBN13: 9783658453480
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 12 2024
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

For more than 30 years, Judith Butler's thesis that gender is constructed has led to unresolved misunderstandings and conflicting interpretations. This work engages with Butler's constructivism epistemologically and develops the thesis that Butler is misunderstood for the very reasons their philosophy critiques: the necessities of thought imposed by traditional metaphysics and its dualistic conceptual framework. Matter is not a neutral or prediscursive concept but is always already embedded in a gendered discourse and functions as the constitutively excluded. Kantian epistemology serves here as both an example of implicitly misogynistic philosophy and a framework to understand the misinterpretations of Butler as well as the fundamental epistemological issue--the relationship between the knowing subject and reality. What does it mean for Butler that even material aspects are constructed yet real, without developing an idealistic concept of reality?

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