Butlerian

Of or relating to Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic Victorian author.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic Victorian author.
  2. Of or relating to Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher focused on feminism, queer theory, and ethics.
    • As [Mae] West aptly demonstrates, theatrical performance, performance in everyday life, and Butlerian performativity suggest how both actresses and prostitutes employ a variety of strategies to intervene in their...
    • As we have explained, Butlerian theory affords us a way of understanding gendered, heterosexual relations that illuminates and helps to make sense of the (non-)responses of our participants. - 2015, Tracy Morison,...
    • In Butt, gender is aesthetically transcended: instead of a Butlerian gender performance that destabilizes masculinity through parody, or a celebration of the destruction of the masculine ego-ideal, which Bersani...

Origin

From Butler + -ian.

Forms

more Butlerian most Butlerian

Derived

Butlerian jihad Butlerian Jihad

Noun

  1. An advocate of a form of Lamarckism put forward by Samuel Butler and Ewald Hering

Forms

Butlerians