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  1. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler - 1989 - Routledge.
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s _Gender Trouble_ is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated (...)
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    Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler - 1990 - Routledge.
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s _Gender Trouble_ is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated (...)
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  3. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex.Judith Butler - 1993 - New York: Routledge.
    In ____Bodies That Matter,__ Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in _Gender_ _Trouble,_ Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers (...)
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  4. The psychic life of power: theories in subjection.Judith Butler - 1997 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    The author considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. Power is no longer understood to be 'internalized' by an existing subject, but the subject is spawned as an ambivalent effect of power, one that is staged through the operation of conscience. To claim that power fabricates the psyche is also to claim that there is a (...)
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    Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly.Judith Butler - 2015 - Harvard University Press.
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  6. Undoing Gender.Judith Butler - 2004 - Routledge.
    The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival.
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  7. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler & Suzanne Pharr - 1990 - Hypatia 5 (3):171-175.
  8. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative.Judith Butler - 1997 - Routledge.
    With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.
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  9. Giving an Account of Oneself.Judith Butler - 2005 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    Offers an outline for a new ethical practice - one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. The author demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency and narratibility is crucial to an ethical understanding of the human.
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    Feminists theorize the political.Judith Butler & Joan Wallach Scott (eds.) - 1992 - New York: Routledge.
    The use of "theory" in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralism theory within feminism. Against the view that the use of post-structuralism necessarily weakens feminism, 'Feminists Theorize the Political' affirms the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. In laying the theoretical groundwork for the volume, Butler and Scott posed a number of questions to (...)
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    What World is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology.Judith Butler - 2022 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and about, this common bind? Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all (...)
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    (1 other version)Dispossession: The Performative in the Political.Judith Butler & Athena Athanasiou - 2013 - Polity.
    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 humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living? In the context of neoliberal expropriation of labor and livelihood, dispossession opens (...)
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  13. Subjects of desire: Hegelian reflections in twentieth-century France.Judith Butler - 1987 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    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 French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that (...)
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    Senses of the Subject.Judith Butler - 2015 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on the psychic life of power and the possibility of self-narration, this book considers how passions such as desire, rage, love, and grief are bound up with (...)
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    Contingency, hegemony, universality: contemporary dialogues on the left.Judith Butler - 2000 - London: Verso. Edited by Ernesto Laclau & Slavoj Žižek.
    In a series of memorable exchanges, three eminent theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics.
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    Giving an Account of Oneself.Judith Butler - 2001 - Diacritics 31 (4):22-40.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Diacritics 31.4 (2001) 22-40 [Access article in PDF] Giving an Account of Oneself Judith Butler In recent years, the critique of poststructuralism, itself loquacious, has held that the postulation of a subject who is not self-grounding undermines the possibility of responsibility and, in particular, of giving an account of oneself. Critics have argued that the various critical reconsiderations of the subject, including those that do away with the theory (...)
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  17. Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death.Judith Butler - 2000 - Columbia University Press.
    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 up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's _Oedipus,_ has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she (...)
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    Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence.Judith Butler - 2004 - New York: Verso.
    In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a world in which that violence might be minimized and in which interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for a global political (...)
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    Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism.Judith Butler - 2012 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism, and state-sponsored racism. At the same time, she moves beyond communitarian frameworks, including Jewish ones, that fail to arrive at a radical democratic notion of political cohabitation. Butler engages thinkers such (...)
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  20. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left.Judith Butler & Ernesto Laclau - 2002 - Political Theory 30 (1):167-170.
     
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    The Political Promise of the Performative.Judith Butler & Athena Athanasiou - 2013 - In Judith Butler & Athena Athanasiou (eds.), Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. Polity. pp. 140-148.
  22. Rethinking vulnerability and resistance.Judith Butler - 2016 - In Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti & Leticia Sabsay (eds.), Vulnerability in Resistance. Durham: Duke University Press.
  23. Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation.Judith Butler - 2012 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2):134-151.
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  24. Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth Century France.Robert B. Pippin & Judith P. Butler - 1990 - Philosophical Review 99 (1):129.
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  25. Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description.Judith Butler - 1989 - In Jeffner Allen & Iris Marion Young (eds.). Indiana University Press. pp. 85-100.
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    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere.Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West & Craig Calhoun (eds.) - 2011 - Columbia University Press.
    _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, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of "the (...)
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    Vulnerability in Resistance.Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti & Leticia Sabsay (eds.) - 2016 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of vulnerability in practices of resistance. They consider how vulnerability is constructed, invoked, and mobilized within neoliberal discourse, the politics of war, (...)
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  29. For a careful reading.Judith Butler - 1995 - In Seyla Benhabib (ed.), Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange. New York: Routledge. pp. 127--143.
  30. Contingent Foundations in Seyla Benhabib et al.Judith Butler - 1995 - In Seyla Benhabib (ed.), Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange. New York: Routledge. pp. 35--58.
  31. The Judith Butler Reader.Sara Salih & Judith Butler - 2004 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    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 (...)
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    Subjects of Desire.Judith Butler - 2000 - Philosophical Inquiry 22 (3):118-118.
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    Soul and Form.Georg Lukacs & Judith Butler - 2010 - Columbia University Press.
    György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text. For (...)
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    The Inorganic Body in the Early Marx: A Limit-Concept of Anthropocentrism.Judith Butler - 2019 - Radical Philosophy 2 (6):3-17.
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    Categories by which we try to live.Judith Butler - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):283-288.
    Categories We Live By makes several claims about Judith Butler's Gender Trouble which Butler seeks to contest, while remaining in fundamental agreement with most of the conclusions in Asta Sveinsdottir's book. At issue is whether or not performativity can rightly be restricted to what is called an exercitive in J. L. Austin's sense, whether Butler is a radical constructivist or a qualified one, and whether unauthorized speech acts have a power to bring a reality into being that is different from (...)
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  36. Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism.Judith Butler - 2019 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 9 (1):1-25.
    Anglophone theoretical reflections on gender often assume the generalizability of their claims without first asking whether “gender” as a term exists, or exists in the same way, in other languages. Some of the resistance to the entry of “gender” as a term into non-Anglophone contexts emerges from a resistance to English or, indeed, from within the syntax of a language in which questions of gender are settled through verb inflections or implied reference. A larger form of resistance, of course, has (...)
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  37. The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview with Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell.Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Pheng Cheah & E. A. Grosz - 1998 - Diacritics 28 (1):19-42.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview with Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell*Pheng Cheah (bio) and Elizabeth Grrosz (bio)EG:Luce Irigaray’s writings have always figured strongly in your works, probably more than in the work of other American feminist theorists. Out of all the feminist theorists you both interrogate, she seems to emerge as a kind of touchstone of the feminist ethical, political, and intellectual concerns to which you seem (...)
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  38. (2 other versions)Violence, Non-Violence.Judith Butler - 2006 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 27 (1):3-24.
    What is immediately strange about Sartre’s controversial preface to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is its mode of address. To whom is this preface written? Sartre imagines his reader as the colonizer or the French citizen who recoils from the thought of violent acts of resistance on the part of the colonized. Minimally, his imagined reader is one who believes that his own notions of humanism and universalism suffice as norms by which to assess the war for independence in (...)
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  39. Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition.Judith Butler - 1999 - Routledge.
    Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture.
     
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    The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview with Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell.Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Cheah Pheng & Elizabeth Grosz - 1998 - Diacritics 28 (1):19-42.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview with Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell*Pheng Cheah (bio) and Elizabeth Grrosz (bio)EG:Luce Irigaray’s writings have always figured strongly in your works, probably more than in the work of other American feminist theorists. Out of all the feminist theorists you both interrogate, she seems to emerge as a kind of touchstone of the feminist ethical, political, and intellectual concerns to which you seem (...)
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  41. A Livable Life? An Inhabitable World? Scheler on the Tragic.Judith Butler - 2022 - Puncta 5 (2):8-27.
    The question of what makes a life livable is linked with the question, what makes for an inhabitable world. This last was not Scheler’s question, but it follows from the world that he describes, the world that he claims is exhibited through the tragic. When the world is an object immersed in sorrow, how is it possible to inhabit such a world? What about the persistence of uninhabitable sorrow? The answer lies less in individual conduct or practice than in the (...)
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  42. Sovereign Performatives in the Contemporary Scene of Utterance.Judith Butler - 1997 - Critical Inquiry 23 (2):350-377.
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    The Livable and the Unlivable.Judith Butler & Frédéric Worms - 2023 - New York: Fordham University Press. Edited by Frédéric Worms, Arto Charpentier, Laure Barillas & Zakiya Hanafi.
    The unlivable is the most extreme point of human suffering and injustice. But what is it exactly? How do we define the unlivable? And what can we do to prevent and repair it? These are the intriguing questions Judith Butler and Frédéric Worms discuss in a captivating dialogue situated at the crossroads of contemporary life and politics. Here, Judith Butler criticizes the norms that make life precarious and unlivable, while Frédéric Worms appeals to a "critical vitalism" as a way of (...)
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    (1 other version)3. “We, the People”: Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly.Judith Butler - 2016 - In Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Badiou & Judith Butler (eds.), What Is a People? New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 49-64.
  45. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva.Judith Butler - 1988 - Hypatia 3 (3):104-118.
    Julia Kristeva attempts to expose the limits of Lacan's theory of language by revealing the semiotic dimension of language that it excludes. She argues that the semiotic potential of language is subversive, and describes the semiotic as a poetic-maternal linguistic practice that disrupts the symbolic, understood as culturally intelligible rule-governed speech. In the course of arguing that the semiotic contests the universality of the Symbolic, Kristeva makes several theoretical moves which end up consolidating the power of the Symbolic and paternal (...)
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  46. Drucilla Cornell, and Nancy Fraser.Seyla Benhabib & Judith Butler - 1995 - In Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange. New York: Routledge.
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    (2 other versions)Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity.Judith Butler - 2009 - Critical Inquiry 35 (4):773-795.
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    (1 other version)Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions in Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.Judith Butler - 1989 - Journal of Philosophy 86 (11):601-607.
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    Interview: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities.Judith Butler & George Yancy - 2020 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4):483-487.
    This conversation between a feminist and a critical whiteness scholar addresses the politics of vulnerability to COVID-19 and the questions of what it means to mobilize and learn from private grief and mass mourning and the role of academia and intellectuals in the current crisis.
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  50. Can one lead a good life in a bad life? Adorno Prize Lecture.Judith Butler - 2009 - Radical Philosophy 176:9.
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