Precarious Life
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Precarious Life by Judith Butler
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.
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
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
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 | 9781844675449 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844675440 |
| Title | Precarious Life |
| Author | Judith Butler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2006-08-17 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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