Judith Butler's precarious politics : critical encounters

Select an Action

Title:

Author:

Carver, Terrell.

ISBN:

9780415384438

9780415384421

Publication Information:

London : Routledge, 2008.

Physical Description:

x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Introduction / Terrell Carver & Samuel A. Chambers -- Butler's phenomenological existentialism / Diana Coole -- Feminists know not what they do : Judith Butler's Gender trouble and the limits of epistemology / Linda M.G. Zerilli -- "French theory" goes to France : trouble dans le genre and "materialist" feminism : a conversation manqué / Lisa Jane Disch -- Acclaim for Antigone's claim reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler) / John E. Seery -- Missing poststructuralism, missing Foucault : Butler and Fraser on capitalism and the regulation of sexuality / Anna Marie Smith -- Towards a cultural politics of vulnerability : precarious lives and ungrievable deaths / Moya Lloyd -- Change of address : Butler's ethics at sovereignty's deadlock / Jodi Dean

Sovereignty and suffering : towards an ethics of grief in a post-9/11 world / David S. Gutterman & Sara L. Rushing -- Butler and life : law, sovereignty, power / Elena Loizidou -- Rights and the politics of performativity / Karen Zivi -- This species which is not one : identity practices in Star trek : deep space nine / Kathy E. Ferguson -- Vulnerability, vengeance, and community : Butler's political thought and Eastwood's Mystic river / Robert E. Watkins -- Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn.

Personal Subject:

Butler, Judith, 1956-.

Subject Term:

Feminist theory.

Feminist theory -- Political aspects.

Sex role.

Sex role -- Political aspects.

Added Author:

Carver, Terrell.

Chambers, Samuel Allen, 1972-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007022684.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2007022684-d.html

Copies:

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168023673664	305.4201 C331P 2008	1	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past twenty years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory.

Each chapter is written by an acclaimed political theorist and concentrates on a particular aspect of Butler's work. The book is divided into five sections which reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Butler's work and activism:

Butler and Philosophy: explores Butler's unique relationship to the discipline of philosophy, considering her work in light of its philosophical contributions Butler and Subjectivity: covers the vexed question of subjectivity with which Butler has engaged throughout her published history Butler and Gender: considers the most problematic area, gender, taken by many to be primary to Butler's work Butler and Democracy: engages with Butler's significant contribution to the literature of radical democracy and to the central political issues faced by our post-cold war Butler and Action: focuses directly on the question of political agency and political action in Butler's work.

Along with its companion volume, Judith Butler and Political Theory, it marks an intellectual event for political theory, with major implications for feminism, women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and anyone with a critical interest in contemporary American 'great power' politics.