In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," o[...]

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 of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point one's abi[...]

This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing co[...]

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning th[...]

In "Frames of War", Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole people, who are cast as existen[...]

Acknowledged as one of the most influential thinkers of modern times, an understanding of Judith Butler's work is ever more essential to an understanding of not just the landscape of cultural and critical theory, but of the world around us. Understanding Judith Butler, however, can be perceived as a[...]

Kønsballade er en moderne klassiker. Gennem en kritisk analyse af blandt andet Foucault, Lacan og Freud, Kristeva og Wittig tilbyder Judith Butler sine læsere en kritisk genealogi over de kategorier, hvormed køn, seksualitet og identitet traditionelt tænkes og erfares.

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När Gender Trouble kom ut 1990 slog den ner som en bomb i feministkretsar. Sedan dess har Judith Butler kommit att bli den mest uppmärksammade genusteoretikern i USA. Boken har tvingat genusforskare att reflektera över sin begreppsanvändning och sina teoriers politiska implikationer på ett nytt[...]

I Krigets ramar undersöker Judith Butler hur olika sätt att se på mänskligt liv har varit avgörande för att legitimera och rationalisera krigföring och statligt våld. Genom att framställa vissa mänskliga liv som mindre än mänskliga, som omöjliga att sörja ? som osörjbara ?, blir det m[...]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel utgör på många sätt portalfiguren för de senaste två århundradenas filosofi och politiska teori. Såväl marxismen som existentialismen, fenomenologin och den kritiska teorin, ja även den moderna analytiska filosofin, uppstod till stor del som reaktioner på han[...]

The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship -- and ope[...]