Expressivity and Performativity: The Body in its Sexual Being [Spanish]

Authors

  • Diana Paola Triana Moreno Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Abstract

 

The main objective of this article is to make evident the relationship between expressivity and performativity trying to reveal the continuities, tensions and ruptures concerning the ways of understanding the sexed body in Merleau-Ponty´s Phenomenology of Perception and the poststructuralist perspective of Judith Butler. On the one hand, the body as a sexual being is approached to demonstrate how the critiques to the anonymous body and the preexistence of the operative locus made by feminism do not fully grasp the ideas of the French philosopher. On the other hand, the notions of expressivity and performativity are approached to reveal the displacement from theatricality to dramatization.

 

Author Biography

Diana Paola Triana Moreno, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Candidata a doctora en Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y miembro del grupo de investiga­ción Problemas de filosofía de la misma universidad. Magíster en Estudios Sociales de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Filosofa de la Universidad Libre e historiadora de la Universidad del Rosario. Sus intereses académicos están vinculados con la filosofía estética, la fenomenología, la historia del arte y los estudios de género y feminismos.

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2018-04-23

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No. 29 (2018): July-December

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