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  • Precarious Life

    The Powers of Mourning and Violence

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Who's Afraid of Gender?

    by Judith Butler ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • Harper's Bazaar • W • Esquire • From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world."A profoundly urgent intervention.” —Naomi Klein"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.” —Claudia Rankine**Inflamed by the rhetoric of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Force of Nonviolence

    An Ethico-Political Bind

    by Judith Butler ...
    “The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel West).“ . . . nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” —New York TimesJudith Butler shows how an ethic of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Gender Trouble

    Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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' ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Antigone's Claim

    Kinship Between Life and Death

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Frames of War

    When Is Life Grievable?

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Dispossession

    The Performative in the Political

    by Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou ...
    Series series Conversations
    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 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Senses of the Subject

    by Judith Butler ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Subjects of Desire

    Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

    by Judith Butler ...
    Translated by Damon Young ...
    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 ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

    by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Craig Calhoun ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, 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, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook