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This volume offers novel and provocative insights into
vulnerability and exclusion, two concepts crucial for the
understanding of contemporary political agency. In twelve critical
essays, the contributors explore the dense theoretical content,
complex histories and conceptual intersection of vulnerability and
exclusion. A rich array of topics are covered as the volume
searches for the ways that vulnerable and excluded groups relate to
each other, where the boundary between the excluded and the
included arises, and what the stakes of 'invulnerability' might be.
Drawing on the works of Hegel (via Judith Butler), Helmuth Plessner
and Hannah Arendt to situate the project in a solid historical
context, the volume likewise tackles pressing and contemporary
issues such as the state of human capital under neoliberalism, the
flawed nature of democracy itself, and the vulnerability inherent
in extreme precarity, extreme violence, and interdependence. The
contributions come from philosophers with a range of backgrounds in
social philosophy and critical social sciences, who use related
conceptual tools to tackle the political challenges of the 21st
century. Together, they present a ground-breaking overview of the
main challenges which social exclusion presents to contemporary
global societies.
This volume offers novel and provocative insights into
vulnerability and exclusion, two concepts crucial for the
understanding of contemporary political agency. In twelve critical
essays, the contributors explore the dense theoretical content,
complex histories and conceptual intersection of vulnerability and
exclusion. A rich array of topics are covered as the volume
searches for the ways that vulnerable and excluded groups relate to
each other, where the boundary between the excluded and the
included arises, and what the stakes of 'invulnerability' might be.
Drawing on the works of Hegel (via Judith Butler), Helmuth Plessner
and Hannah Arendt to situate the project in a solid historical
context, the volume likewise tackles pressing and contemporary
issues such as the state of human capital under neoliberalism, the
flawed nature of democracy itself, and the vulnerability inherent
in extreme precarity, extreme violence, and interdependence. The
contributions come from philosophers with a range of backgrounds in
social philosophy and critical social sciences, who use related
conceptual tools to tackle the political challenges of the 21st
century. Together, they present a ground-breaking overview of the
main challenges which social exclusion presents to contemporary
global societies.
Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble
in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most
influential thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous
socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political
speech, media representations of war, the democratic power of
assembling bodies, and the force of nonviolence. The volume Bodies
That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings
together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who
apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas in their own
research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it
takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's
scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the
volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary
relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to
key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the
vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's
humanities research.
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.
Addressing the relationship among social critique, violence, and
domination, Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the
Reality of Domination examines a critique of violent and unjust
social arrangements that transcends the Enlightenment/postmodern
opposition. This critique surpasses the "reflexive violence" of
classical enlightenment universalism without committing the
"violence of reflexivity" by negating any possibility of collective
radical social engagement. The unifying thread of the collection,
edited by Marjan Ivkovic, Adriana Zaharijevic, and Gazela
Pudar-Drasko, is a sensitivity to the field of tension created by
these extremes, especially for the issue of how to articulate a
non-violent critique that is nevertheless "militant," in the sense
that it creates a rupture in an institutionalized order of
violence. In Part One, the contributors examine the theoretical
resources that help us move beyond the reflexive violence of the
classical Enlightenment social critique in our quest for justice
and non-domination. Part Two brings together nuanced attempts to
reconsider the dominant modern understandings of violence,
subjectivity, and society without succumbing to the violence of
reflexivity that characterizes radically anti-Enlightenment
standpoints.
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