Body,Symbol,and Problem of Agency

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-4074.2013.06.010

Abstract

Abstract: By virtue of the development of semiotics,body is getting to take an important role in contemporary philosophy study for the notion of socially constructed body,and simultaneously,symbol has become the basic element of cultural analysis for its contribution to the construction of body.While in an apparent position,body also falls into a dilemma of hidden position,that is,body is quiet in symbolic construction.In the discourse practice of semiotics,this dilemma is shown in the form of problem of agency in discourse determinism.Butler,with his perfomativity theory,tries to resolve the difficulty,but he eventually falls into the conflict with the notion of flesh which oversteps his constructed body premise.Maybe it makes us to re-think the flesh of body in a new context or in a non-western circumstance.

Key words: , body, symbol, problem of agency

ZHANG Bing. Body,Symbol,and Problem of Agency[J]. Journal of Jishou University（Social Sciences）, 2013, 34(6): 55-62.

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