Anti-Anti-Essentialism:Searching for a Changing Same
Anti-anti-essentialism was first proposed by Paul Gilroy,a renowned British cultural theorist,and its basic meaning can be summarized as"a changing same".Once this concept was proposed,it had a huge impact in fields such as race studies and feminism studies.Concepts such as Spivak's strategic essentialism are discussed together as anti-anti-essentialism.Firstly,anti-anti-essentialism establishes a more inclusive new logical starting point by maintaining the concrete identity of things themselves.This logical starting point is not prescriptive(essentialism),but based on the expression of the research object's real experience,which is descriptive and even factual.Secondly,anti-anti-essentialism strives to realize the continuous"becoming"of things in differences through dual positioning,that is,to realize the self-creation of things in constant changes.Finally,anti-anti-essentialism realizes the sameness cognition in the changing through strategic pause,with the aim of concrete political action in reality.How to transcend the epistemological modes of essentialism and anti-essentialism in the fast-moving and diverse world is an important topic that human beings have been exploring since the beginning of post-modernism,and the concept of anti-anti-essentialism can propel further contemplation on this crucial subject.
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