On the Possibility of Disenclosure from the "Erotics of Domination" in the Western Philosophical Tradition
Berling, Judith
Graduate Theological Union
2020
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Ph.D.
Graduate Theological Union
2020
This dissertation grapples with the notion of domination in the western philosophical tradition by investigating a claim leveled from within feminist theology and Christian social ethics. That claim, first introduced by Sharon Welch, suggests that the deployment of any critique is dependent upon a foundational critical principle which results in a stance of domination over a subjugated other. For this reason, domination is endemic of all efforts toward liberation because these invariably perpetuate what liberationist efforts ostensibly wish to usurp, resulting in a contradiction.