Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (Radical Thinkers)

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 i ek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Title: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (Radical Thinkers)

Author: Judith Butler

ISBN: 9781788738613

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Publisher: Verso Books

Publication Date: 2020-10-13

Number of Pages: 192

Weight: 0.1633 kg

A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought. --Brooklyn Rail Hers is a unique voice f 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 If Precarious Life represents a departure from the subject of gender, it's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble--academic, political and otherwise. --Bookforum If we are interested in arresting cycles of violence to produce less violent outcomes, it is no doubt important to ask what, politically, might be made of grief besides a cry for war. --Judith Butler One of Butler's most topical and accessible books. --Women's Review of Books