Undoing Gender (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

Undoing Gender (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer

Judith Butler (Salih Sara)(Paperback)

Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as: * The subject* Gender* Sex* Language* The

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning

The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

'Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today.' - Cornel West 'Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.' - J. M. Bernstein Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected

Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex"" (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the 'matter' of

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and

An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (Smith-Laing Tim)(Paperback)

Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism's struggle against patriarchy as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our assumptions about gender and identity. Looking at the factionalism of contemporary (1980s) feminism,

Rámce války - Judith Butlerová

Kniha významné politické a feministické teoretičky Judith Butlerové se věnuje současným válkám a otázce: za které životy (ne)truchlíme. Pokud život není 'takový, za kterým bude truchleno', je snazší připustit jeho zmaření. Autorka promlouvá k publiku 'prvního světa',

Rámce války: Za které životy netruchlíme? - Judith Butlerová - e-kniha

eBook: Kniha významné politické a feministické teoretičky Judith Butlerové se věnuje současným válkám a otázce: za které životy (ne)truchlíme. Pokud život není 'takový, za kterým bude truchleno', je snazší připustit jeho zmaření. Autorka promlouvá k publiku 'prvního

The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (Butler Judith)(Pevná vazba)

'Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today.' - Cornel West 'Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.' - J. M. Bernstein Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected

Senses of the Subject (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and

Giving an Account of Oneself (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her 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 and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. Butler takes as her starting point one's

Vulnerability in Resistance (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations,

Legacy of Death (Cutler Judith)(Paperback)

When the family butler is brutally attacked, land agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet determine to find the culprit in this gripping Victorian mystery. With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land

Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism,

The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what 'one' is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we

On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek engage in a dialogue on central

Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy (Lewis Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Legacy of Death (Cutler Judith)(Pevná vazba)

When the family butler is brutally attacked, land agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet determine to find the culprit in this gripping Victorian mystery. With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land

Legacy of Death (Cutler Judith)(Pevná vazba)

When the family butler is brutally attacked, land agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet determine to find the culprit in this gripping Victorian mystery. With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land