The Judith Butler Reader [Paperback]

Sara Salih (Editor), Judith Butler (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0631225943 | ISBN-13: 978-0631225942 | Edition: 1

The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.

• Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity
• Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and Sara Salih
• Collects together writings that span Butler’s impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works
• Includes an introduction and editorial material to assist students in their readings of theories that stand at the forefront of contemporary theoretical and political debates

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. The Judith Butler Reader provides an exemplary selection from across the whole range of Butler's writings: gender identity, performativity, subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. In making available in one place the full breadth of Butler's thought, Salih's reader will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

"These important essays represent the aspirational and analytic agendas of Judith Butler's remarkable work. Hers 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, Harvard University

Book Description

Judith Butlers work has challenged and changed the frames of reference within which people speak, think, and live categories of identity. Her innovative and politically far-reaching insight that gender is performative and that identity is a scene of construction continues to exert a crucial impact in numerous critical-theoretical fields, including politics, philosophy, feminist and queer theory, literary and cultural studies. Behind Butlers radical theorizations of gender, sex, sexuality, power, and race lies the urgent normative inquiry into the differential way the human is produced and effaced within the field of contemporary power.The Judith Butler Reader is a collaborative effort by Sara Salih and Judith Butler to bring together writings that span Butlers impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works. Salihs introduction emphasizes the political and ethical importance of Butlers ideas, and she supplies editorial material that will assist students in their readings of theories that stand at the forefront of contemporary theoretical and political debates.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (March 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631225943
• ISBN-13: 978-0631225942
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Nonfiction > Philosophy

More About the Author

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 The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, Frames of War, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.






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