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,

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Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.

- J.M. Bernstein,

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.
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Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.
Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.
Part of Verso's succesfull radical thinkers series

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781788738613
Publisert
2020-10-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
162 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

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.