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Agency, Signification, and Temporality.
- Source :
- Hypatia; Fall2009, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p50-62, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- This paper examines the temporality of agency in Judith Butler's and Saba Mahmood's writing. I argue that Mahmood moves away from a performative understanding of agency, which focuses on relations of signification, to a corporeal understanding, which focuses on desire and sensation. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's reading of Henri Bergson, I show how this move involves a changed model of becoming: whereas Butler imagines movement as a series of discontinuous beings, in Mahmood's case, we get an understanding of becoming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SIGNIFICATION (Logic)
AGENT (Philosophy)
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08875367
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Hypatia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 66905259
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01057.x