The Force of Nonviolence

Praise for Frames of War: A trenchant and brilliant book. -- Mike Rowe * Utne Reader * Praise for Frames of War: It's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise. * Bookforum * Praise for Frames of War: Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. -- J. M. Bernstein Praise for Frames of War: Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. Frames of War is an intellectual masterpiece that weds a new understanding of being, immersed in history, to a novel Left politics that focuses on State violence, war and resistance. -- Cornel West Praise for Frames of War: An impressive and challenging book from one of the leading intellectuals of our time. * Diva * Praise for Precarious Life: A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought. * Brooklyn Rail * Praise for Precarious Life: Here is a unique voice of 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 Butler's philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic. * New York Times * Perhaps the most influential and widely travelled feminist in the Western academy...[Butler] carefully, with assertive toughness, combats the hatred, fear and rage of those who respond violently to her continuous commitment to confronting normative patterns of coercion with calls for concerted actions of resistance. -- Lynne Segal * Times Higher Education * Judith Butler lucidly enumerates the obstacles nonviolence faces in a time when it is sorely needed. Drawing on works from Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud, she makes a fresh new case for what a destructive obstacle our pervasive individualism is to nonviolent action - and the change possible with it. -- John Freeman * The Boston Globe * Featured in The New Yorker * The New Yorker * A text with a vision for another kind of world, one that refuses to take refuge in the comfort of moral platitudes. * Australian Book Review * Presents a hopeful philosophical position for evolving architecture competent in responding to society's issues, all the while being intertwined within it. * Architectural Review * Invaluable -- Henrietta Cullinan * Peace News * Butler's argument both builds on and contributes to a wider feminist literature concerned with developing ways of social and political living that stem from a relational understanding of the self. -- Alister Wedderburn * Radical Philosophy *