Excitable speech : a politics of the performative

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Title:

Author:

Butler, Judith, 1956-

ISBN:

9780415915885

9780415915878

Personal Author:

Butler, Judith, 1956-

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 1997.

Physical Description:

x, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: On Linguistic Vulnerability -- 1. Burning Acts, Injurious Speech -- 2. Sovereign Performatives -- 3. Contagious Word: Paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the Military -- 4. Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency.

Subject Term:

Oral communication -- Social aspects.

Hate speech.

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Language and languages -- Political aspects.

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Summary

With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.