Precarious Life by Judith Butler
Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community.
A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought* Brooklyn Rail *
Hers is a unique voice f 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
If Precarious Life represents a departure from the subject of gender, it's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise. * Bookforum *
If we are interested in arresting cycles of violence to produce less violent outcomes, it is no doubt important to ask what, politically, might be made of grief besides a cry for war. -- Judith Butler
One of Butler's most topical and accessible books. * Women’s Review of Books *
Hers is a unique voice f 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
If Precarious Life represents a departure from the subject of gender, it's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise. * Bookforum *
If we are interested in arresting cycles of violence to produce less violent outcomes, it is no doubt important to ask what, politically, might be made of grief besides a cry for war. -- Judith Butler
One of Butler's most topical and accessible books. * Women’s Review of Books *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844670055 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844670058 |
| Title | Precarious Life |
| Author | Judith Butler |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2004-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
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