Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Giving an Account of Oneself
What does it mean to lead an ethical life under vexed social and linguistic conditions? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice -one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.
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Judith Butler
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests.
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Judith (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Butler
Judith Butler
Undoing Gender
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation.
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Judith (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Butler
Judith Butler
Excitable Speech
‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech
Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Meer
Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Meer