Reading the Sexual Economy of Academic Freedom with Sarah Kofman and Jacques Derrida: A Feminist Deconstruction of Kant's Concept of the University

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES

Australian Feminist Studies Pub Date : 2019-11-29 DOI:10.1080/08164649.2019.1698285

Lenka Vráblíková

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ABSTRACT This article revisits Sarah Kofman and Jacques Derrida's work on Immanuel Kant in order to contribute to the theorisations of the ethics and politics of sexuality at universities today. It asks: how does phallogocentrism operate in the discourse of the university which we have inherited from Kant? And how can an understanding of the sexual forces woven into this discourse help us unravel and complicate the paradoxes that currently define the concept and the practice of academic freedom? By interrogating academic freedom from within an analysis of the university's sexual economy, this article aims to contribute to feminist critique with a view to renewing university discourses and practices. It shows that the contract between the nation state and scholars upon which the university is founded is not only financial or sociopolitical but also sexual. It argues that academic freedom must be conceived not as a university subject's right to speak or act freely but as a continuous ethical relationship to others – where a critique of the university's alleged sexual indifference remains paramount.

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与莎拉·科夫曼、雅克·德里达一起解读学术自由的性经济:康德大学概念的女性主义解构

摘要本文回顾了Sarah Kofman和Jacques Derrida对伊曼纽尔·康德的研究，以期为当今大学的性伦理和政治理论做出贡献。它问道：我们从康德那里继承下来的大学话语中，阳具中心主义是如何运作的？对这种话语中所包含的性力量的理解如何帮助我们解开并使目前定义学术自由概念和实践的悖论复杂化？通过从大学性经济的分析中质疑学术自由，本文旨在为女权主义批判做出贡献，以期更新大学话语和实践。它表明，民族国家与学者之间的契约不仅是财政或社会政治的，而且是性的。它认为，学术自由不能被视为大学主体自由言论或行动的权利，而是与他人的持续道德关系——在这种关系中，对大学所谓的性冷漠的批评仍然至关重要。

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Australian Feminist Studies WOMENS STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Australian Feminist Studies was launched in the summer of 1985 by the Research Centre for Women"s Studies at the University of Adelaide. During the subsequent two decades it has become a leading journal of feminist studies. As an international, peer-reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies is proud to sustain a clear political commitment to feminist teaching, research and scholarship. The journal publishes articles of the highest calibre from all around the world, that contribute to current developments and issues across a spectrum of feminisms.