| Author(s) | Gayle Salamon |
| Journal | Hypatia |
| Thematic Cluster/Special Issue | Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card |
| Abstract | This essay explores the relationship between queer theory and philosophical justification, prompted by instances where the author’s own queer identity and scholarly work were called into question. Through three anecdotes about the demand to justify queerness, in the classroom, social interactions, and comparisons to violent criminality, the author argues that queerness necessitates an implicit philosophical orientation. Queer folks naturally turn to phenomenology to understand their embodied difference and metaphysical self-conceptions. Queerness also requires ethical and political justification in relation to social norms. However, the author contends that the order-seeking imperative of justification conflicts with queer theory’s acceptance of divergences. While justification reconciles differences, queerness proliferates alternatives to expand livability. Thus the author concludes that leaving philosophy for interdisciplinary queer studies may align methodology with content better than staying in a discipline that demands justification for queerness itself. This content was generated by artificial intelligence using the text of the original work. |
| Keywords | queer theory, justification, phenomenology, methodology, norms, divergence, interdisciplinarity This content was generated by artificial intelligence using the text of the original work. |
| Date Published | February 2009 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 225-230 |
| URL | https://www.jstor.org/stable/20618140 |
| Google Scholar Link | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=6704250937572249419&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 |
| Open Access? | No |
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