From Phenomenology to Genealogy : Judith Butler’s Early Thought of the Body

ゲンショウ　ガク　カラ　フーコー　ヘ　ショキ　ジュディス　バトラー　ニ　オケル　シンタイ　ロン　ノ　ヘンセン

フジタカ, カズキ

Fujitaka, Kazuki

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

身体

ヘーゲル

現象学

系譜学

Butler

body

Hegel

phenomenology

genealogy

This paper examines Judith Butler’s thought regarding the body in the 1980s. Her theoretical perspective in Gender Trouble (1990) which has become a synonym for Butler, was not created at once. It was gradually formed thorough her speculations during the 1980s. In this paper, we show how her theory in Gender Trouble had been created through her thought in the 1980s. For Butler in the 1980s, the primary problem is the body, where gender is a facet of the problem. What is the body? How should we approach the body? These questions are the problems Butler engages in the 1980s. We can trace her approach to the body in the 1980s as the turn “from phenomenology to genealogy.” In turn, her confrontation with phenomenology played a very important part in the establishment of her theory in Gender Trouble. Butler fi rst found phenomenology a method for approaching the body, redefining genealogy as theorized by Foucault, thorough her later critique of phenomenology, at least in 1989. In this paper, we illustrate the role played by phenomenology in Butler’s thought in the 1980s, and how she shifts from phenomenology to genealogy.