Judith Butler

Judith Butler è Distinguished Professor presso la Graduate School dell'Università della California, Berkeley, specializzata in retorica e letteratura comparata. È una filosofa post-strutturalista di spicco le cui opere influenti abbracciano il femminismo, la teoria queer, la filosofia politica e l'etica. Butler ha ottenuto un ampio riconoscimento per il suo rivoluzionario libro "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity", che ha sfidato le nozioni convenzionali di genere e identità. Altre pubblicazioni degne di nota includono "Bodies that Matter", "Undoing Gender" e "The Psychic Life of Power", che hanno ulteriormente sviluppato le sue teorie sulla performatività e le dinamiche di potere.

La carriera accademica di Butler è iniziata con la sua tesi di dottorato, pubblicata successivamente come "Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France". La sua ricerca esplora temi diversi, dalla teoria letteraria e la narrativa filosofica moderna alla filosofia ebraica e alle critiche alla violenza statale. Butler ha co-autorato e co-curato diverse opere, tra cui "Who Sings the Nation-State?" con Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak e "Contingency, Hegemony, Universality" con Slavoj Žižek ed Ernesto Laclau. Le sue pubblicazioni recenti, come "The Force of Nonviolence" e "Who's Afraid of Gender?", continuano a confrontarsi con urgenti questioni sociali e politiche, consolidando la sua reputazione di pensatrice critica di primo piano.
Collezioni
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1 The Judith Butler Reader 2003
Libri di non-fiction
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1 Subjects Of Desire 1987
2 Gender Trouble 1990
3 Bodies That Matter 1993
4 Excitable Speech 1997
5 The Psychic Life Of Power 1997
6 Antigone's Claim 2000
7 Contingency, Hegemony, Universality 2000
8 Giving An Account Of Oneself 2003
9 Undoing Gender 2004
10 Precarious Life 2004
11 Who Sings The Nation-state? 2007
12 Frames Of War 2009
13 Dispossession 2013
14 Senses Of The Subject 2015
15 Notes Toward A Performative Theory Of Assembly 2015
16 What World Is This? 2022
17 The Livable And The Unlivable 2023
18 Who's Afraid Of Gender? 2024
New Directions in Critical Theory Books
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1 Mute Speech (By: Jacques Rancière) 1998
2 The Experience of Injustice (By: Emmanuel Renault, Richard A. Lynch) 2004
3 Social Acceleration (By: Hartmut Rosa, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys) 2005
4 Alienation (By: Frederick Neuhouser, Alan Smith, Rahel Jaeggi) 2005
5 Pathologies of Reason (By: James Ingram, Axel Honneth) 2007
6 Horrorism (By: William McCuaig, Adriana Cavarero) 2007
7 Narrating Evil (By: Maria Pia Lara) 2007
8 The Politics of Our Selves (By: Amy Allen) 2007
9 Democracy and the Political Unconscious (By: Noëlle McAfee) 2008
10 The Force of the Example (By: Alessandro Ferrara) 2008
11 Democracy in What State? (By: Giorgio Agamben) 2009
12 States Without Nations (By: Jacqueline Stevens) 2009
13 The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy ( By: Donna Welch Jones) 2010
14 Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique (By: Gabriel Rockhill) 2011
15 Freedom's Right (By: Axel Honneth) 2011
16 The Right to Justification (By: Rainer Forst, Jeffrey Flynn) 2011
17 The Scandal of Reason (By: Albena Azmanova) 2012
18 Media of Reason (By: Darrell Arnold, Matthias Vogel) 2012
19 The Wrath of Capital (By: Adrian Parr) 2012
20 What Is a People? (With: Kevin Olson, Jody Gladding, Alain Badiou, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière, Bruno Bosteels, Pierre Bourdieu, Sadri Khiari) 2013
21 The Disclosure of Politics (By: Maria Pia Lara) 2013
22 Radical Cosmopolitics (By: James D. Ingram) 2013
23 The Power of Tolerance (By: Wendy Brown) 2014
24 Imaginal Politics (By: Chiara Bottici) 2014
25 Radical History and the Politics of Art (By: Gabriel Rockhill) 2014
26 Starve and Immolate (By: Banu Bargu) 2014
27 The Highway of Despair (By: Robyn Marasco) 2015
28 A Political Economy of the Senses (By: Anita Sridhar Chari) 2015
29 The End of Progress (By: Amy Allen) 2016
30 On the Difficulty of Living Together (By: Manuel Cruz, Richard Jacques) 2016
31 Political Responsibility (By: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo) 2016
32 Recognition or Disagreement (By: Jacques Rancière, Axel Honneth, Katia Genel, Jean-Philippe Deranty) 2016
33 Left-Wing Melancholia (By: Enzo Traverso) 2016
34 Death and Mastery (By: Benjamin Y Fong) 2016
35 Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later (By: Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, Samir Haddad) 2016
36 Political Uses of Utopia (By: James Ingram, S.D. Chrostowska) 2017
37 Critical Theory in Critical Times (By: Penelope Deutscher, Cristina Lafont) 2017
38 The Habermas Handbook (By: Regina Kreide, Cristina Lafont, Hauke Brunkhorst) 2017
39 Birth of a New Earth (By: Adrian Parr) 2017
40 The Return of Work in Critical Theory (By: Christophe Dejours) 2018
41 Genealogies of Terrorism (By: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson) 2018
42 Praxis and Revolution (By: Eva von Redecker, Lucy Duggan) 2018
43 Queer Terror (By: C. Heike Schotten) 2018
44 The Practice of Political Theory (By: Clayton Chin) 2018
45 Naming Violence (By: Mathias Thaler) 2018
46 Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left (By: Peter Thompson) 2018
47 Fear of Breakdown (By: Noëlle McAfee) 2019
48 Transitional Subjects (By: Brian O'Connor, Amy Allen, Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, Sara Beardsworth, Noëlle McAfee, C. Fred Alford, Alessandro Ferrera, Owen Hulatt, James Martel, Johanna Meehan) 2019
49 A Time for Critique (By: Bernard E. Harcourt, Didier Fassin) 2019
50 Capitalism on Edge (By: Albena Azmanova) 2020
51 Critique on the Couch (By: Amy Allen) 2020
52 Hermeneutics as Critique (By: Lorenzo C. Simpson) 2021
53 Recognition and Ambivalence 2021
54 Crisis Under Critique (By: Axel Honneth, Didier Fassin) 2022
55 Fascist Mythologies ( By: Federico Finchelstein) 2022
56 Another Universalism (By: Stefan Eich, Anna Jurkevics, Nishin Nathwani, Nica Siegel) 2023
57 Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism (By: Jonathan Judaken) 2024
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Books
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1 To Carl Schmitt (By: Jacob Taubes) 1987
2 A Hedonist Manifesto (By: Michel Onfray) 2000
3 Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing (By: Catherine Malabou) 2004
4 Factory of Strategy (By: Antonio Negri) 2004
5 Spinoza for Our Time (By: Antonio Negri) 2004
6 What Does Europe Want? (By: Slavoj Žižek, Srećko Horvat) 2005
7 Rage and Time (By: Peter Sloterdijk) 2006
8 After the Death of God (By: Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo) 2007
9 The Politics of Postsecular Religion (By: Ananda Abeysekara) 2008
10 Nietzsche and Levinas (By: Jill Stauffer) 2008
11 Philosophical Temperaments (By: Peter Sloterdijk) 2009
12 Strange Wonder (By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein) 2009
13 Religion and the Specter of the West (By: Arvind-Pal S. Mandair) 2009
14 Anatheism (By: Richard Kearney) 2009
15 Our Broad Present (By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht) 2010
16 Radical Democracy and Political Theology (By: Jeffrey W. Robbins) 2010
17 Heidegger (By: Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin) 2010
18 There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship (By: Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin) 2010
19 Hermeneutic Communism (By: Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala) 2011
20 A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul (By: Stanislas Breton) 2011
21 Radical Political Theology (By: Clayton Crockett) 2011
22 Hegel and the Infinite (By: Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis) 2011
23 What Does a Jew Want? (With: Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Udi Aloni) 2011
24 Sociophobia (By: César Rendueles) 2013
25 The Incident at Antioch (By: Alain Badiou) 2013
26 Deleuze Beyond Badiou (By: Clayton Crockett) 2013
27 Self and Emotional Life (By: Catherine Malabou, Adrian Johnston) 2013
28 Encountering Religion (By: Tyler T. Roberts) 2013
29 Cut of the Real (By: Katerina Kolozova) 2014
30 A Materialism for the Masses (By: Ward Blanton) 2014
31 Wrestling with the Angel (By: Tracy McNulty) 2014
32 Cloud of the Impossible (By: Catherine Keller) 2014
33 Force of God (By: Carl A. Raschke) 2015
34 Nietzsche Versus Paul (By: Abed Azzam) 2015
35 Christo-Fiction (By: François Laruelle) 2015
36 Harmattan (By: Michael D. Jackson) 2015
37 Paul's Summons to Messianic Life (By: L.L. Welborn) 2015
38 Reimagining the Sacred (By: Richard Kearney, Jens Zimmermann) 2015
39 An Insurrectionist Manifesto (By: Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Peter Rollins, Catherine Keller, Jeffrey Robbins, Noelle Vahanian) 2016
40 The Work of Art (By: Michael D. Jackson) 2016
41 The Intimate Universal (By: William Desmond) 2016
42 Excessive Subjectivity (By: Dominik Finkelde) 2017
43 American Immanence (By: Michael S. Hogue) 2018
44 Political Theology of the Earth (By: Catherine Keller) 2018
45 Unbearable Life (By: Arthur Bradley) 2019
46 Ecce Humanitas (By: Brad Evans) 2021
47 Accidental Agents (By: Martin Crowley) 2022
48 Energy and Change (By: Clayton Crockett) 2022
49 Infinite Greed (By: Adrian Johnston) 2024
Judith Butler Anthologies
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1 The Scandal of the Speaking Body 1980
2 Spectacular Optical 1998
3 Comparative Political Culture in the Age of Globalization 2002
4 Women and Social Transformation 2003
5 Queer Theory 2005
6 Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America 2011
7 What Is a People? 2013
8 A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria 2014
9 A Life with Mary Shelley 2014
10 Think in Public 2019
11 Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk 2019
12 The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007 2022
13 Queer Ideas 2023