Judith Butler
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"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."--“Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time” (1997) by Judith Butler, in Diacritics |
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Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department.
Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and her dissertation was subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s, between different teaching/research appointments (such as at the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University), she was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism. Her most recent work focuses on Jewish philosophy, engaging in particular with "pre-Zionist criticisms of state violence."
Books
- 2007: Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak)
- 2005: Giving An Account of Oneself
- 2004: Undoing Gender
- 2004: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
- 2003: Women and Social Transformation (with Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim and Lidia Puigvert)
- 2000: Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek)
- 2000: Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
- 1997: The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
- 1997: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
- 1993: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
- 1990: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
- 1987: Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
