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Precarious life:

the powers of mourning and violence
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Verso, 2006 - Political Science - 168 pages
Judith Butler is one of America's most daring and vibrant thinkers. In this profound appraisal of post-September 11th America, now with a new foreword, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened fear and aggression that followed the attack on the Twin Towers, and the US government's decision to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. She critiques this use of violence as a response to loss and grief, and argues that the vulnerability the West now feels offers a chance to imagine a world without violence, a world where the interdependency of peoples and nations becomes the basis for a global political community. Through five impassioned and personal essays, Butler responds 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.
  

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Review: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

User Review  - Ani - Goodreads

In (at times) utterly gorgeous prose, Butler brings to light the problems with dehumanizing others in the world - be it by responding to violence with violence, indefinitely detaining prisoners in ... Read full review

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User Review  - Karlo Mikhail Mongaya - Goodreads

good discussion of mourning and violence but is marred by butler's postmodern blinders Read full review

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Contents

EXPLANATION AND EXONERATION OR WHAT WE CAN HEAR
1
VIOLENCE MOURNING POLITICS
19
INDEFINITE DETENTION
50
THE CHARGE OF ANTISEMITISM JEWS ISRAEL AND THE RISKS OF PUBLIC CRITIQUE
101
PRECARIOUS LIFE
128
NOTES
153
INDEX
163
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

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TitlePrecarious life: the powers of mourning and violence
AuthorJudith Butler
Editionreprint
PublisherVerso, 2006
ISBN1844675440, 9781844675449
Length168 pages
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Political Science / Essays
Political Science / Political Freedom
  
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