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Frames of war : when is life grievable? / Judith Butler

Butler, Judith, 1956- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York : Verso, 2016

xxx, 193 Seiten

Englisch

Erstmalig erschienen bei Verso 2009

978-1-78478-247-4 ( : paperback); 1-78478-247-5

978-1-78478-249-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-78478-248-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

9781784782474

OCoLC: 953013114     

OCoLC: 908517163 (aus SWB)     

CI 6388  | MK 3400      Ähnliche Literatur

HM1116

303.6

Basisklassifikation: 71.65 (Kriminalität als soziales Problem)

*USA ; Gewaltmonopol ; Gewaltkriminalität ; Kriegsverbrechen ; Folter      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Violence -- Social aspects ; Violence -- Political aspects ; Political violence ; Mass media and public opinion -- United States ; Right and left (Political science) ; Political violence ; Political crimes and offenses ; Violence -- Political aspects ; Violence -- Social aspects ; Right and left (Political science)

"Frames of War begins where Butler's Precarious Lives left off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives that we never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war, the lives of those wretched populations of the earth -- the refugees; the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement -- are always presented to us as already irretrievable and thereby already lost. We may shake our heads at their wretchedness but then we sacrifice them nonetheless, for they are already forgone. By analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left toward the precarity of those lives. Only by recognizing those lives as precarious lives -- lives that are not yet lost but are ever fragile and in need of protection -- might the Left stand in unity against the violence perpetrated through arbitrary state power. -- Publisher description