Abstract

GONZALEZ, Anahí Gabriela. The Question of Animals in the Philosophy of Judith Butler. Induced Precariousness and Ethics of Non-Violence. Prax. filos. [online]. 2023, n.56, pp.11-30.  Epub Apr 20, 2023. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i56.12848.

This article addresses some of the tensions in Butlerian philosophy with respect to the “question of animality”, fundamentally about his proposal of an ethics of bodily precariousness. If one of the key objectives of his philosophy has been to analyze the processes of exclusion that configure unlivable bodies, it is proposed to think of speciesism as a device that induces differential forms of precarity based on the "human-animal dichotomy". It is argued that this device makes legitimate the domination exercised over living beings marked as “animals”, while those lives that are recognizable as “human” are considered valuable and habitable. This reading allows us to problematize the humanist assumptions that persist in Butler's philosophy, pushing her proposal of an “ethics of nonviolence” towards an antispeciesist framework that not only takes into consideration “less-than-human” bodies, but also nonhuman animals.

Keywords : Judith Butler; Precariousness; Animality; Ethics of non-violence; Speciesism.

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