Judith Butler's precarious politics : critical encounters / edited by Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers.
Contributor(s): Carver, Terrell
| Chambers, Samuel Allen.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415384427 (hbk.); 9780415384421 (hbk.); 0415384435 (pbk.); 9780415384438 (pbk.); 0203937457 (ebk.); 9780203937457 (ebk.).Subject(s): Butler, Judith, 1956- -- Philosophy | Feminist theory | Phenomenology | Social ethicsDDC classification: 305.4201 Other classification: 89.06 Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index.
Introduction / Terrell Carver & Samuel A. Chambers -- Butler's phenomenological existentialism / Diana Coole -- Feminists know not what they do : Judith Butler's gender trouble and the limits of epistemology / Linda M.G. Zerilli -- 'French theory' goes to France : trouble dans le genre and 'materialist' feminism : a conversation manqué / Lisa Jane Disch -- Acclaim for Antigone's claim reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler) / John E. Seery -- Missing poststructuralism, missing Foucault : Butler and Fraser on capitalism and the regulation of sexuality / Anna Marie Smith -- Towards a cultural politics of vulnerability : precarious lives and ungrievable deaths / Moya Lloyd -- Change of address : Butler's ethics at sovereignty's deadlock / Jodi Dean -- Sovereignty and suffering : towards an ethics of grief in a post-9/11 world / David S. Gutterman & Sara L. Rushing -- Butler and life : law, sovereignty, power / Elena Loizidou -- Rights and the politics of performativity / Karen Zivi -- This species which is not one : identity practices in Star trek : deep space nine / Kathy E. Ferguson -- Vulnerability, vengeance, and community : Butler's political thought and Eastwood's Mystic river / Robert E. Watkins -- Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib? / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn.
Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past 20 years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory.