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 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'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,...

„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...

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...

»Die zeitgenössischen feministischen Debatten über die Bedeutungen der Geschlechtsidentität rufen immer wieder ein gewisses Gefühl des Unbehagens hevor, so als ob die Unbestimmtheit dieses Begriffs im Scheitern des Feminismus kulminieren...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Butler considers the rights of the dispossessed, the necessity of plural cohabitation, and the dangers of arbitrary state violence, showing how they can be extended to a critique of Zionism, even when that is not their explicit aim. She...

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences¿political, social, ecological, economic¿challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance...