With intellectual reference points that include Foucault and Freud, Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray, this is one of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years and is perhaps the essential work of contemporary feminist...

Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why...

Judith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory,...

What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense...

Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political...

"The Judith Butler Reader" ist eine Sammlung von Schriften der einflussreichen Philosophin und Gender-Theoretikerin Judith Butler. Herausgegeben von Sara Salih, bietet das Buch einen umfassenden Überblick über Butlers bedeutendste...

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence...

Judith Butlers Buch "Verdinglichung: Eine anerkennungstheoretische Studie" untersucht das Konzept der Verdinglichung aus einer anerkennungstheoretischen Perspektive. Butler setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie Menschen und ihre...

Judith Butler shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of...

„Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life & Death“ von Judith Butler ist eine philosophische Auseinandersetzung mit der Figur der Antigone aus Sophokles' Tragödie. Butler untersucht die komplexen Themen von Verwandtschaft, Geschlecht und...

Widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Butler¿s most important books, which in light of current debates on freedom of speech, `no platform¿ and cancel culture, remains more relevant now than ever. Includes a new Preface by the...

Antigone zwischen der Pflicht gegenüber dem unbestatteten Bruder und der Staatsräson: Das ist - nach Hegel und anderen - das zentrale Thema der Sophokles'schen Antigone. Dieser politischen Interpretation steht die psychoanalytische zur...