Grappling with Change

Butler, Janice

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“…do not require our consent and neither are they the result of contracts or agreements into which any of us have deliberately entered. 74 So, for Butler, we find that the ethical is linked to affect and specifically to anxiety because it is a function of the exposure to the incalculable or unconditioned. Despite the fact that this exposure is specifically to the incalculable, it nevertheless always requires decisions of individuals.…”

Section: Mouffe's Prioritization Of the Politicalmentioning

confidence: 98%

Rescuing politics from liberalism

Morrison

2017

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Both Judith Butler and Chantal Mouffe challenge liberal conceptions of politics based on their ontological descriptions of the political. Mouffe argues that the failure of liberalism to grasp the agonistic character of political life means that properly political conflicts get translated into moral terms. Mouffe thinks that the way to correct our “post-political” problems (like alt-right movements) is to avoid translating political conflicts into a moral register. I challenge Mouffe’s separation of ethics and politics by invoking Butler’s more nuanced account of the ethical sphere. I demonstrate that Mouffe does not consider that there are different orders of moral claims (for example, the claims that others have on us to treat them with justice and dignity, claims that at least implicitly demand not to be weighed in terms of economic or political utility); nor does Mouffe consider that there are different orders of affect, some of which cannot be simply opposed to rationality.

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Section: Mouffe's Prioritization Of the Politicalmentioning

confidence: 98%