Department of Philosophy2024-11-0920141841-8325N/A2-s2.0-84921374066N/Ahttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/7090This paper takes up the question of the "human" as Butler discusses this in its relation to "intelligibility," "critique," "the opacity of the subject" and "dispossession." I believe that Butler's perspective helps us not only to understand the terms of dehumanization but also offers ways of conceptualizing a more humane world. I argue that a major concern for Butler is a sort of humanism arising from the awareness of the primordial relationality of our existence and of our lives, which we pursue in a primary sociality as interdependent embodied beings.PhilosophyJournal Articlehttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84921374066&partnerID=40&md5=9f26f9da2fb38cc70cb465d3a8e479377785