Abstract
This chapter begins with Judith Butler's statement regarding the existence of ethical difficulties within situations of power and that there is no absolute difference between the political and the ethical. Butler talks about the concept of recognition, asserting that norms of recognition are vital for minority communities, gender minorities, and various stateless peoples. She also discusses how ontologies are established within certain fields of intelligibility, and how these ontologies are formed through the sedimentation of practices that leads to what Butler calls the genealogies of present. These are ways in which sedimented norms dominate the present and can potentially be desedimented by counter-practices. Finally, Butler answers questions regarding the universal and the transcendent in relation to nonviolence and Emmanuel Levinas' metaphysical ethics.
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