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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Judith Butler |
ISBN: | 1844670058 9781844670055 9781844675449 1844675440 1446700585 9781446700587 |
OCLC Number: | 53398140 |
Description: | xxi, 168 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Explanation and exoneration, or what we can hear -- Violence, mourning, politics -- Indefinite detention -- The charge of anti-semitism: Jews, Israel and the risks of public critique -- Precarious life. |
Responsibility: | Judith Butler. |
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"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 "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 "A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought." - Brooklyn Rail "One of Butler's most topical and accessible books." -- Women's Review of Books "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 Read more...


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