
Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The History of Political Individualism
I think individualism was a political philosophy. C.B. McPherson has written quite a bit about it, but so too have feminist thinkers and psychoanalytic thinkers like Nancy Chudrow and Jessica Benjamin. So there's a history to be told about how the individual got set up as a methodological point of departure. If I don't honor a certain obligation to that person, I break the bond between us; what if I myself am that bond? And I'm asking a different question then. I'm moving from what do I do to who am I in relation to this other and do we form a kind of strange we,. We may not even know each other's
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