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Judith Butler's precarious politics : critical encounters / edited by Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers

Carver, Terrell, 1946- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Chambers, Samuel Allen, 1972- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

New York ; London : Routledge, 2008

1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten)

Englisch

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Phenomenology and epistemology; 2 Butler's phenomenological existentialism; 3 Feminists know not what they do: Judith Butler's gender trouble and the limits of epistemology; Part II: Feminism and philosophy; 4 'French theory' goes to France: Trouble dans le genre and 'materialist' feminism - a conversation manque; 5 Acclaim for Antigone's Claim reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler); Part III: Capitalism and culture

6 Missing poststructuralism, missing Foucault: Butler and Fraser on capitalism and the regulation of sexuality7 Towards a cultural politics of vulnerability: Precarious lives and ungrievable deaths; Part IV: Ethics and sovereignty; 8 Change of address: Butler's ethics at sovereignty's deadlock; 9 Sovereignty and suffering: Towards an ethics of grief in a post-9/11 world; Part V: Law and rights; 10 Butler and life: Law, sovereignty, power; 11 Rights and the politics of performativity; Part VI: Humanity and vulnerability; 12 This species which is not one: Identity practices in Star Trek

13 Vulnerability, vengeance, and community: Butler's political thought and Eastwood's Mystic River14 Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib?; Bibliography; Index

978-0-203-93745-7

978-0-415-38442-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1081429786     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.4324/9780203937457

HQ1190

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LOC-SH: Feminist theory ; Phenomenology ; Social ethics ; Butler, Judith -- 1956- -- Philosophy

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