Abstract

The article aims to address the possibility of a relational ontology by reviewing a possible genealogy of the philosophical concept of ontology that accounts for the difficulty of overcoming its substantialist basis. It then revisits Butler’s thesis that it is possible to articulate a socio-corporeal ontology, affirmed in relationality as foundational. The objectives include recovering the originality of Butler’s feminist approach and proposing a reading in terms of conditions that allows glimpsing a particular materialism, namely, a performative materialism. To this end, the discussion is situated in a dual scenario: the historical philosophical context regarding considerations on ontology, and the feminist context within the framework of a materialism that allows for the consideration of relationality in all its argumentative, ontological, and political weight.