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The Persistence of the Feminine: Negative Dialectics and Feminist T...
by Ariane McCullough
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The women s liberation
movement (WLM) can only produce its positive goal of
autonomy if the woman
question is not reduced to any principle or system of
thought. This paper
advances a feminist philosophy as a critique of
civilization, understood as
capitalist-patriarchy. The introductory section, entitled
Capitalist-Patriarchy and its Discontents , elaborates on
the theory of
capitalist-patriarchy (developed by Maria Mies) and
outlines modern
philosophy, from the Enlightenment to Marxism to
postmodernism, as its theoretical
reflection. This critique of modernity follows from the
contributions of
Theodor Adorno of the Frankfurt School, with his
conception of 'negative
dialectics' as dialectics without identity or system.
Subjection and
Subjectivization responds with an alternative theory of
the subject that
escapes the impasse of the object-relation which
characterizes patriarchy. The
feminist subject is established without object-relation,
but as a radically
solitary embodiment of the real, borrowing from the
contemporary theoretical
work of Katerina Kolozova, Alain Badiou, and Francois
Laruelle, as well as from the psychoanalytic discourse of
Jacques Lacan. Feminist
Theory and Practice expands on the theory of the subject
to explain the
implications of the patriarchal object-relation in the
concept of labor and in
the separation of revolutionary theory and practice. The
section furthermore
discusses feminism as the invocation of the feminine as a
virtual reality in
which the subject appears without object, but as the
instance of the real. The
final section "The Body in Pain, Care of the Self"
considers
blackness as social death in relation to the feminist
critique of
capitalist-patriarchy. Black women occupy an especially
vulnerable space in
capitalist-patriarchy which is often taken for granted in
the WLM. "The
Body in Pain" advances a thesis that the critique of
capitalist-patriarchy
must be enacted with concern to the designation of black
bodies as sentient but
dead. This paper proposes to struggle with the
persistence of the real against
identity-thinking.
Date Published: 2016-12-19 01:51:19
Identifier: persistenceofthefeminine
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Language: eng
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# Topics
critical theory
feminism
postmodernism
maria mies
theodor adorno
francois laruelle
jacques lacan
alain badiou
black feminism
feminist theory
modern philosophy
patriarchy
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