The Judith Butler Reader
1. Auflage Dezember 2003
384 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that
span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.
* Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender
Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist
of power, gender, sexuality and identity
* Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and
Sara Salih
* Collects together writings that span Butler's impressive
career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both
well-known and lesser-known works
* Includes an introduction and editorial material to assist
students in their readings of theories that stand at the forefront
of contemporary theoretical and political debates
Introduction.
Section 1: Sex, Gender Performativity, and the Matter of Bodies.
1. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault (1987).
2. Excerpts from Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987).
3. Excerpts from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).
4. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1990).
5. Excerpt from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (1993).
Section 2: Fantasy, Censorship, and Discursive Power.
6. The Force of Fantasy: Mapplethorpe, Feminism, and Discursive (1990).
7. Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia (1993).
8. Excerpt from Excitable Speech: A Poltics of the Performative (1997).
Section 3: Subjection, Kinship, and Critique.
9. Excerpt from The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997).
10. Excerpt from Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000).
11. Excerpt from Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000).
12. What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue (2001).
Section 4: Making Difficulty Clear.
13. Changing the Subject: Judith Butler's Politics of Radical Resignification: Gary A. Olsen and Lynn Worsham.
Index
challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. The Judith
Butler Reader provides an exemplary selection from across the
whole range of Butler's writings: gender identity, performativity,
subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. In making
available in one place the full breadth of Butler's thought,
Salih's reader will prove an invaluable resource for students and
scholars alike." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social
Research
"These important essays represent the aspirational and analytic
agendas of Judith Butler's remarkable work. Hers 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, Harvard University
Sara Salih is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is editor of The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (2000) and author of Judith Butler (2002).
