Excitable Speech - A Politics of the Performative

List of contents

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Introduction: On Linguistic Vulnerability 1. Burning Acts, Injurious Speech 2. Sovereign Performatives 3. Contagious Word: Paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the Military 4. Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency. Notes Index

About the author

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School. She is the author of Gender Trouble (Routledge); Bodies That Matter (Routledge) Precarious Life; Frames of War; and Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly.

Summary

Widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Butler’s most important books, which in light of current debates on freedom of speech, ‘no platform’ and cancel culture, remains more relevant now than ever. Includes a new Preface by the author.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Butler, Judith (University of California Butler
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367705251
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70525-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary theory, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics