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.

A propos de l'auteur

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 Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Résumé

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

Commentaire

It's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise. Bookforum

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Judith Butler
• Edition: Verso
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9781788738613
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-861-3
• Pages: 192
• Thèmes: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 19
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques; Politikwissenschaft, Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Geopolitics, Politics / Current Events, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory