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1	Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist One of the classic works in feminist theory, originally published in 1990. Judith P. Butler critiques what she calls "heteronormativity" and argues for new ways of looking at gender and sexuality. see all copies from £3.36! new only from £3.36! \| first editions
2	Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community. Following the ... see all copies from £5.98! new only from £5.98! \| first editions
3	Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist In this highly-acclaimed subversive book, Butler examines the trouble' with unproblematized appeals to sex/gender identities. Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality ... see all copies from £7.69! new only from £17.76!
4	Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual ... see all copies from £18.10! new only from £20.62!
5	Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender in two earlier best-selling Routledge books, Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter , philosopher Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to ... see all copies from £14.92! new only from £20.82!
6	The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what one is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it ... see all copies from £13.40! new only from £13.53! \| first editions
7	Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist Butler reinterprets the story of Antigone in light of recent philosophical and gender studies. see all copies from £9.25! new only from £9.25! \| first editions
8	The Judith Butler Reader more books like this by Sara Salih (Editor), Judith P Butler add to wishlist "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. The book is organized in active collaboration between Judith ... see all copies from £20.84! new only from £20.84!
9	Feminists Theorize the Political more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist The use of theory' in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralist theory within feminism. Against the view that poststructuralism necessarily weakens feminism, Feminists Theorize the Political ... see all copies from £3.62! new only from £21.20! \| first editions
10	Giving an Account of Oneself more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice - one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. Butler takes as her starting point one's ability to answer the questions "What have I ... see all copies from £14.09! new only from £14.09!
11 view cover	Undoing Gender more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist In her classic work Gender Trouble - a book that changed the face of gender studies - Judith Butler presented the idea of "gender performativity"-the notion that we all 'do' gender in some way. In her new collection of essays, Butler clarifies the critical task of "undoing gender" when its terms are produced in the service of regulatory and ... see all copies from £25.06! new only from £25.06!
12 view cover	What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory more books like this by Judith P. Butler (Editor), Kendall Thomas (Editor), John Guillory (Editor) add to wishlist A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory? is a vigorous engagement with the question : how today are theory and progressive thought connected? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions. see all copies from £7.78! new only from £16.80! \| first editions
13 view cover	Erotic Welfare by Linda Singer, Judith P Butler (Editor) add to wishlist The emergence of AIDS in contemporary culture has not only produced a vast discourse on the disease but has provoked an anxious proliferation of sites of erotic danger. In Erotic Welfare , Linda Singer argues that we are currently living in an "age of epidemic", fueled by a "panic logic" in which contemporary discourse on sexuality and on a ... see all copies from £8.23! new only from £20.65! \| first editions
14 view cover	Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to ... see all copies from £13.00! new only from £13.00!
15 view cover	Loss: The Politics of Mourning more books like this by David L Eng (Editor), David Kazanjian (Editor), Judith P Butler (Afterword by) add to wishlist Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this text provides a view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains". Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors ... see all copies from £15.57! new only from £21.24!
16 view cover	Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea more books like this by Axel Honneth, Professor Martin Jay (Editor), Judith P Butler (Commentaries by) add to wishlist In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part of an immutable "second nature." For a variety of ... see all copies from £18.91! new only from £19.21!
17 view cover	The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages more books like this by Professor Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by), Judith P Butler (Afterword by) add to wishlist What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century ... see all copies from £14.03! new only from £14.03!
18 view cover	Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left more books like this by Judith P Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau add to wishlist What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, ... see all copies from £11.69! new only from £11.69!
19 view cover	Vida Precaria more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist see all copies from £17.55! new only from £17.56!
20 view cover	Cuerpos Que Importan: Sobre Los Lcmites Materiales y Discursivos del Sexo more books like this by Judith Butler add to wishlist This book is devoted to conceptualize ethical decisions in medicine. Brief clinical cases are followed by key discussion questions, such as deciding when not to treat, volunteering children for research, achieving the best doctor-patient relationship, and treating adolescents. This is an invaluable book for medical students and staff members of ... see all copies from £22.11! new only from £22.12!
21	Gender Trouble CL more books like this by Judith P Butler, Linda J Nicholson (Editor) add to wishlist One of the classic works in feminist theory, originally published in 1990. Judith P. Butler critiques what she calls "heteronormativity" and argues for new ways of looking at gender and sexuality. see all copies from £41.13!
22	Pourquoi Des Theories by Judith P. Butler, Groupe de recherches theoriques (Universite de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne) add to wishlist see all copies from £44.09! new only from £44.09!

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