Judith Butler's Precarious Politics : Critical Encounters

ISBN-13: 9780415384438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 238 str.

Terrell Carver

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Judith Butler has been arguably the important gender theorist. This volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory. It is divided into five sections: Butler and Philosophy; Butler and Subjectivity; Butler and Gender; Butler and Democracy; and, Butler and Action.

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1. Introduction Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers  Part 1: Phenomenology & Epistemology  2. Butler’s Phenomenological Existentialism Diana Coole  3. Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and the Limits of Epistemology Linda M.G. Zerilli  Part 2: Feminism & Philosophy  4. ‘French Theory’ Goes to France: Trouble dans le Genre and ‘Materialist’ Feminism – A Conversation Manqué Lisa Jane Disch  5. Acclaim for Antigone’s Claim Reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler) John E. Seery  Part 3: Capitalism & Culture  6. Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault: Butler and Fraser on Capitalism and the Regulation of Sexuality Anna Marie Smith  7. Towards a Cultural Politics of Vulnerability: Precarious Lives and Ungrievable Deaths Moya Lloyd  Part 4: Ethics & Sovereignty  8. Change of Address: Butler’s Ethics at Sovereignty’s Deadlock Jodi Dean  9. Sovereignty and Suffering: Towards an Ethics of Grief in a Post-9/11 World David S. Gutterman and Sara L. Rushing  Part 5: Law & Rights  10. Butler and Life: Law, Sovereignty, Power Elena Loizidou  11. Rights and the Politics of Performativity Karen Zivi  Part 6: Humanity & Vulnerability  12. This Species Which Is Not One: Identity Practices in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Kathy E. Ferguson  13. Vulnerability, Vengeance, and Community: Butler’s Political Thought and Eastwood’s Mystic River Robert E. Watkins  14. Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib Timothy Kaufman-Osborn