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- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- ISSN
- 2155-0905
Abstract
Anonymous Temporality and Gender Rereading Merleau-Ponty Megan M. Burke This essay provides a feminist reading of Merleau-Ponty’s notion of anonymity in order to show that it is a critical resource for a feminist account of gender. For Merleau-Pont y, anonymit y is a structure of temporalit y that is prior to the cogito; it is a time that actualizes the ref lective self. It gestures away from ontological commitments rooted in presence and calls attention to how senses inform and actualize one’s ref lective experience, which illuminates how it is that certain habits become sedimented or deeply rooted into the structure of one’s lived experience. As such, anonymity provides a useful framework for understanding how and in what ways gender normativity is taken up and resisted in experience. Yet feminist readings of Merleau-Ponty and anonymity are divided. On the one hand, there is a strong criticism of his work in general and anonymity in particular and, on the other hand, there is an effort to recuperate aspects of his project, including anonymit y. Four examples can help frame this disparate feminist reception of his work: 1. Merleau-Ponty neglects sexual difference. For example, Elizabeth Grosz suggests, “Merleau-Ponty leaves out—indeed, is
Journal
philoSOPHIA – State University of New York Press
Published: Dec 22, 2013