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Precarious Life

The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Judith Butler

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English
Verso
01 December 2020
In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

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Imprint:   Verso
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   162g
ISBN:   9781788738613
ISBN 10:   1788738616
Series:   Radical Thinkers
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War, Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj i ek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Reviews for Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought. --Brooklyn Rail 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 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 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 One of Butler's most topical and accessible books. --Women's Review of Books


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