Judith Butler

An Overview

Contact: E-Mail: jpbutler@berkeley.edu

Works

1. The force of nonviolence
2. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly
3. Senses of the subject
4. Dispossession: the performative in the political
5. Parting ways: Jewishness and the critique of Zionism
6. The question of gender Joan W. Scott’s critical feminism
7. The power of religion in the public sphere
8. Frames of war: when is life grievable?
9. Is critique secular?: blasphemy, injury, and free speech
10. Who sings the nation-state?: language, politics, belonging
11. Giving an account of oneself
12. Undoing gender
13. Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence
14. Women & social transformation
15. Contingency, hegemony, universality: contemporary dialogues on the left
16. Antigone’s claim kinship between life and death
17. The psychic life of power: theories in subjection
18. Excitable speech: a politics of the performative
19. Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange
20. Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of “sex”
21. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity
22. Subjects of desire: Hegelian reflections in twentieth-century France