Wednesday, July 05, 2006
from Judith Butler's Giving an Account of Oneself * :
. . . If one is speaking in giving an account of oneself, then one is also exhibiting, in the very speech that one uses, the logos by which one lives. The point is not only to bring speech into accord with action, although this is the emphasis that Foucault provides; it is also to acknowledge that speaking is already a kind of doing, a form of action, one that is already a moral practice and a way of life. Moreover, it presupposes a social exchange. . . .
(126-127)
*Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (Fordam University Press, 2005)
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