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Judith Butler and Politics
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Judith Butler and Politics
Series: Thinking Politics
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Presents Judith Butler's interest in plurality of bodily lives and
her search for a social transformation conducive to a more livable
world Offers a novel understanding of Butler' work as a call for an
insurrection at the level of the real Provides a framework based on
an intersection of four main pillar-concepts, performativity,
agency, livable life and non-violence Reads Butler's philosophy as
centred on bodies Reads Butler's work as a convincing
counter-argument against liberal versions of ontology This book is
the only monograph-length study of the work of Judith Butler to
focus on the entire scope of her work, including the last decade of
her writing. In light of these texts, it presents a fresh
interpretation of Butler's political thought, oriented by the idea
of an insurrection at the level of the real. Chapters on ontology,
performativity, agency and precariousness, a liveable life and
non-violence explain how Butler's thought has always been focused
on embodied performances. Instead of seeing Butler as simply a
thinker of the subversive performance of cultural scripts, the book
frames her work for the twenty-first century as an ambitious and
coherent egalitarian alternative to liberal political philosophy.
Each chapter introduces a Butlerian concept, clarifying this in the
context of critical debates, while explaining its contribution to a
new social ontology whose key normative principle is a liveable
life. The book explores the potential of this conceptual framework
not just in relation to the politics of gender, but also to
questions of social inequality, structural violence and the
experience of precarity. Designed for both researchers and
students, it provides a comprehensive way of accessing what is
radically original about this crucial political theorist.
General
Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Thinking Politics |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Adriana Zaharijevic
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-399-51708-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-399-51708-2 |
Barcode: |
9781399517089 |
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