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Biographical note
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of numerous books including Precarious Life (Verso, 2004), Frames of War (Verso, 2009), and Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press, 2015).Praise for Frames of War:<br /><br />A trenchant and brilliant book.
- Mike Rowe, Utne Reader
Praise for Frames of War:<br /><br />It's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise.
Bookforum
Praise for Frames of War:<br /><br />Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.
- J. M. Bernstein,
Praise for Frames of War:<br /><br />Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. <i>Frames of War</i> is an intellectual masterpiece that weds a new understanding of being, immersed in history, to a novel Left politics that focuses on State violence, war and resistance.
- Cornel West,
Praise for Frames of War:<br /><br />An impressive and challenging book from one of the leading intellectuals of our time.
Diva
Praise for Precarious Life:<br /><br />A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought.
Brooklyn Rail
Praise for Precarious Life:<br /><br />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,
Butler's philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.
New York Times
Perhaps the most influential and widely travelled feminist in the Western academy...[Butler] carefully, with assertive toughness, combats the hatred, fear and rage of those who respond violently to her continuous commitment to confronting normative patterns of coercion with calls for concerted actions of resistance.
- Lynne Segal, Times Higher Education
Judith Butler lucidly enumerates the obstacles nonviolence faces in a time when it is sorely needed. Drawing on works from Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud, she makes a fresh new case for what a destructive obstacle our pervasive individualism is to nonviolent action - and the change possible with it.
- John Freeman, The Boston Globe
Featured in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
A text with a vision for another kind of world, one that refuses to take refuge in the comfort of moral platitudes.
Australian Book Review
Presents a hopeful philosophical position for evolving architecture competent in responding to society's issues, all the while being intertwined within it.
Architectural Review
Invaluable
- Henrietta Cullinan, Peace News
Butler's argument both builds on and contributes to a wider feminist literature concerned with developing ways of social and political living that stem from a relational understanding of the self.
- Alister Wedderburn, Radical Philosophy
Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how 'racial phantasms' inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects. The struggle for nonviolence is found in movements for social transformation that reframe the grievability of lives in light of social equality and whose ethical claims follow from an insight into the interdependency of life as the basis of social and political equality.