PODMIOTOWOŚĆ I RÓŻNICA: BUTLER I BRAIDOTTI
Abstract
SUBJECTIVITY AND DIFFERENCE: BUTLER AND BRAIDOTTI
Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti are recognized as the inheritors of
postmodern tradition, in their ideas deconstruct the myth of a stable
and an unequivocally characterized identity. Both, Butler and Braidotti
express the belief, that human being cannot get rid of defining her/his
own subjectivity. Therefore, Braidotti and Butler have created original
concepts of the subjectivity. Both, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotii,
represent the third wave of feminism, therefore they begin the
discussion on the subjectivity from similar initial assumptions: the end
of "I/self" understood in a metaphysical way, the definition of a new
subjectivity of women.
Judith Butler drawing on J.L. Austin’s philosophical achievements and
the theory of performative acts of speech (performative utterance),
creates an innovative concept of the subjectivity, which is established
by/through performative acts. Rosi Braidotti is focused on the revision
of the idea of the woman and the constitution of new women’s
subjectivity. Braidotti conceives woman as a nomadic entity, who is
ambiguous, embodied, cultural, etc.