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Zusatztext “It’s clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble—academic! political and otherwise.”— Bookforum “A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought.”— Brooklyn Rail “Here is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality! encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom.”—Homi K. Bhabha “Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing! challenging! and influential thinkers of our time.”—J.M. Bernstein Informationen zum Autor 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 ?i?ek and Ernesto Laclau! Contingency! Hegemony! Universality . Klappentext One of America's leading feminist voices examines the world of violence and terror, and asks why some lives are more valued than others. Through five essays, this book responds to various US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for an understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice. Zusammenfassung One of America's leading feminist voices examines the world of violence and terror! and asks why some lives are more valued than others. Through five essays! this book responds to various US policies to wage perpetual war! and calls for an understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.