Question
A philosopher argued that a criterion named for this property “terrorizes” scientific research and proposed the alternative of “paralogy,” or moving “beyond reason.” Herbert Fingarette compared the “magic power” of lǐ to a Western theory of this property in Confucius: The Secular as Sacred. Habermas described postmodern philosophers’ use of modern methods of reasoning as a contradiction with this property. Different theories of how intentionality drives acts with this property, whose opposite is (*) constativity, led to the Searle-Derrida debate. Sentences like “I do” and “I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth” have this property since they are the doing of an illocutionary act. Building on the work of J. L. Austin, a 1990 book analyzed how “subversive bodily acts” establish this property of drag. For 10 points, Judith Butler claimed gender has what property in which meaning is created by behavior? ■END■
ANSWER: performativity [or word forms like performative or performed; accept performative utterances; accept performative contradiction or performativer widerspruch; prompt on illocutionary until mention; prompt on efficiency or efficient or effective; prompt on spoken until “illocutionary”] (The first clue refers to Jean-François Lyotard.)
<FW, Philosophy (19th/20th Century)>
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