Speculative feminism in post-correlationist paths

• Main Author: Ana Paula Lemes de Souza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2020-11-01
• Series: Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea
• Subjects: epistemologia e ontologia feminista; pós-correlacionalismo; realismo especulativo.
• Online Access: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rjur/article/view/24924

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses new possibilities of feminism in the philosophical movement denominated speculative realism, in the Quentin Meillassoux’s perspective, in order to oxygenate contemporary feminist epistemology, which is in metaphysical closure. If, pre-Kant, feminism was enclosed in the objectivist position, with the essentialization of women as imperfect, on the other hand, post-Kant, women are reduced to the subjectivist truth of the epistemic order, generating other essentializations. The article proposes a new vision to think post-correlational feminism, with the rise of another form of ontological reflection: through cosmontology, an understanding of sex, gender and sexuality neither better nor worse, but only different, that provokes the reontologization of the human sciences by the recognition of other spellings and modes of existence.