Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith Butler

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Summary

What does it mean to lead a moral life? In their 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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Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith Butler

A pathbreaking account of ethics beyond the classically imagined subject, reissued with a new preface.
Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Their books include Who's Afraid of Gender? (2024), What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology (2022), The Force of Nonviolence (2020), Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), Giving an Account of Oneself (2005), Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004), and Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).
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ISBN 13 9781531509972
ISBN 10 1531509975
Title Giving an Account of Oneself
Author Judith Butler
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Fordham University Press
Year published 2025-04-01
Number of pages 176
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