Abstract

INGALA GOMEZ, EMMA. FIGURES OF THE HUMAN IN JUDITH BUTLER THE RECOGNITION OF A POLITICAL SPACE BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ANTI-HUMANISM. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2018, vol.67, n.168, pp.151-176. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v67n168.58670.

While the antihumanist critique of the concept "the human" initially had a fundamentally emancipatory aim, a particular paradox -related to the thesis of the constructed and ultimately disqualified character of the human- eventually grew from it. To deal with this, subsequent thinkers working within and from this position have, therefore, re-thought and, to a certain extent, recuperated the notion of "the human." We argue that Judith Butler offers one of the most sophisticated treatments of this issue by proposing not a new concept of the human or a new humanism, but different figures of the human articulated around two axes: inconsistency and pre-cariousness. The argument defended is that, by exploring the tension that modulates the relation between these two axes, Butler establishes the parameters for a critical, political antihumanist and non-anthropocentric anthropology.

Keywords : J. Butler; anti-humanism; political anthropology; humanism; human.

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