Judith Butler is Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of many books, including Antigone's Claim, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies That Matter and Gender Trouble.
Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War, Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.
It's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up
trouble-academic, political and otherwise.
*Bookforum*
A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought.
*Brooklyn Rail*
Here is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that
addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality,
encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering
through which we emerge as subjects of freedom.
*Homi K. Bhabha*
Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging,
and influential thinkers of our time.
*J.M. Bernstein*
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