Judith Butler: 40 books
Cuerpos aliados y lucha política
Hacia una teoría performativa de la asamblea
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Butler, una de las pensadoras más audaces y radicales de nuestro tiempo, revisa el estado actual de la soberanía, la resistencia, y otras «acciones concertadas» —término acuñado por Hannah Arendt— en relación con la pertenencia política, en un ensayo que amplía su teoría de la performatividad....
The Force of Nonviolence
The Ethical in the Political
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Towards a form of aggressive non-violence - following on from Butler's Precarious Life and Frames of War
Situating non-violence at the cross-roads of the ethical and political, The Force of Non-Violence brings into focus the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence.
Non-violence...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
by Judith Butler
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Deshacer el género recoge reflexiones recientes de la autora sobre el género y la sexualidad, centrándose en el nuevo parentesco, el psicoanálisis y el tabú del incesto, el transgénero, el intersexo, las categorías de diagnóstico, la violencia social y la labor de transformación social. A...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Dispossession
The Performative in the Political
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and...
Is Critique Secular?
Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing...
by Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière
Language: French
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Le mot "peuple" a tant de sens différents qu’un danger en découle : celui de le ranger dans le vaste ensemble de mots en caoutchouc qui servent avant tout au maintien de l’ordre existant. Et de fait, certains usages du mot – comme le jugement et l’envoi en prison "Au nom du...
by Judith P. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does it mean to lead a moral life?
In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.
Butler takes as her starting...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Interpretive Planning for Museums
Integrating Visitor Perspectives in Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Museum professionals' increased focus on visitors in recent years has been demonstrated by, among other things, the enhanced practice of evaluation and the development of interpretive plans. Yet too often, these efforts function independent of one another. This book helps museums integrate visitors'...