Precarious Life - The Powers of Mourning and Violence

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

About the author

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War, Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Summary

Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Butler
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9781788738613
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-861-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 19
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Politikwissenschaft, Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Politics / Current Events, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays