Judith Butler: 40 books
by Judith Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory,...
by Judith Butler
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Questo testo di Judith Butler affronta alcune tra le pagine più affascinanti e complesse scritte dal giovane Hegel: il frammento sull’Amore e il Frammento di sistema. L’intento dell’Autrice è duplice: scandagliarne il senso profondo e operare, nel contempo, una riflessione più ampia sul tema...
El género en disputa
El feminismo y la subversión de la identidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Judith Butler es una de las feministas de referencia en el panorama filosófico actual y El género en disputa es un texto indispensable para el movimiento feminista. El género en disputa, obra fundadora de la llamada teoría queer y emblema de los estudios de género como se conocen hoy en día,...
Che tu sia il mio corpo
Una lettura contemporanea della signoria e della servitù in Hegel
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Scritta a quattro mani da Judith Butler e Catherine Malabou e tradotta per la prima volta in italiano, quest’opera prende le mosse da una rilettura della dialettica servo-padrone formulata originariamente da Hegel in Fenomenologia dello spirito. “Che tu sia il mio corpo” è il comando che il...
by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu...
by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does-or should-religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine,...
Subjects of Desire
Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the...
Prejudicial Appearances
The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2001
In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories...
Before and After Gender
Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly...
Marcos de guerra
Las vidas lloradas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Judith Butler explora la manera en que el liderazgo bélico de EE. UU. ha impuesto una distinción entre aquellas vidas que merecen ser lloradas y aquellas que no. Nos muestra que esta distinción, presentada a través de formas de comunicación que se han convertido en parte de la guerra misma, ha...
Questione di genere
Il femminismo e la sovversione dell'identità
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Il libro che ha segnato un punto di svolta del femminismo internazionale e che è divenuto un classico del pensiero di genere. Judith Butler argomenta perché il corpo sessuato non è un dato biologico ma una costruzione culturale.
Rileggere questo libro, o leggerlo per la prima volta, dà...
by Judith Butler
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Judith Butler (1956) insegna Letterature comparate e Teoria critica all’Università della California, a Berkeley. Tra le più importanti e discusse filosofe viventi, le sue tesi sul genere, la sessualità e il potere sono al centro del dibattito filosofico internazionale. Nel 2012 è stata insignita,...
Vite precarie
Contro l’uso della violenza in risposta al lutto collettivo
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Come si vive in America e nel mondo dopo l’11 settembre e durante la guerra in Iraq? Quali le conseguenze per i diritti umani e le libertà individuali? Quali censure si accaniscono sulle voci critiche verso la politica del governo statunitense? Contro l’oltranzismo patriottico degli USA, Judith...
Antigone's Claim
Kinship Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
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 open...