Quattro tesi sul femminismo postumano

Rosi Braidotti

doi:10.6092/1827-9198/3706

Rosi Braidotti Utrecht University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/3706

Keywords: Posthumanism, Postanthropocentrism, Feminism, Poststructuralism, Zoe

Abstract

This paper aims to show that feminism is not reducible to Humanism, having developed a radical critique of its key concepts. The paper then investigates the way in which feminist and postcolonial theories, thanks to the efforts of poststructuralism, challenged the model of “Man of reason” and elaborate alternative visions of humanity, centered on zoe as a ruling principle, capable of going beyond gender, without bury the variables of sex, race and class. In conclusion the paper explains how these theories represent the assumptions of posthuman feminist philosophy, summarizing in four theses its main features.

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Author Biography

Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University

B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD Cum Laude, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981; Fellow Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,1994; Honorary Degrees University of Helsinki, 2007; University of Linkoping, 2013. Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005; Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), 2009; Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), 2014. Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her books include Patterns of Dissonance, Polity Press, 1991; Nomadic Subjects, Columbia University Press, 1994 and 2011a (second ed.); Metamorphoses, Polity Press, 2002; Transpositions, Polity Press, 2006; La philosophie, láoù on ne l’attend pas, Larousse, 2009; Nomadic Theory. The Portable RosiBraidotti, Columbia University Press, 2011b and The Posthuman, Polity Press, 2013. In 2009 she was elected board member of CHCI (Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes). Personal website: www.rosibraidotti.com