Disorder as “Pseudo-Idea”

Authors

  • Steven Angelides Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia

Abstract

This essay deconstructs the order/disorder binary. Drawing on the work of Henri Bergson, it replaces the idea of disorder with the concept of two positive orders. The essay concludes with a philosophical example of how we might reconceive the biomedical opposition of normality/pathology without relying on the idea of disorder. Résumé Cet essai déconstruit le concept binaire de normal/trouble. En se basant sur le travail d'Henri Bergson, il remplace l'idée du trouble avec le concept de deux «normativités » positives. L'essai conclut en offrant un exemple philosophique sur comment re-concevoir l'opposition biomédicale de normalité/ pathologie, sans avoir recours à l'idée du trouble.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Author Biography

Steven Angelides, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia

Steven Angelides is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of A History of Bisexuality (2001) and is completing a book entitled The Fear of Child Sexuality. Preliminary work from this manuscript, published in GLQ, was awarded the 2004 MLA Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, and queer studies.

Downloads

Published

2012-05-17

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2012): "Disorderly Conduct" / Women's Studies and Pedagogy

Section

Original Research

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are aware that articles published in Atlantis are indexed and made available through various scholarly and professional search tools, including but not limited to Erudit.

3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to preprint their work, that is, post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process. This can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Read more on preprints here.