Precarious Life

The Powers of Mourning and Violence

By: Judith Butler

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Paperback | 13 October 2020

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192 Pages

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Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity

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.

About the Author

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

Industry Reviews

“It’s clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble — academic, political and otherwise.”
Bookforum

“A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought.”
Brooklyn Rail

“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

“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.”
J.M. Bernstein

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