...This chapter restages the contrast between Hegel and Spinoza to clarify the difference between a humanist program of recognition and the politics of renaturalization. Judith Butler is correct to treat Spinoza and Hegel as vibrant alternatives to mainstream liberalism, which remains guided...

...The introduction to Power in Modernity articulates the need for a new theory of power via a contrast between two classic parables from Franz Kafka: "Before the Law" and "An Imperial Message." "Before the Law," which is used frequently in theory and philosophy (e.g. by Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida...

...Through the example of Judith Butler, this chapter discusses difficult philosophical writing that some, including Denis Dutton and Martha Nussbaum, have even called bad. While writing must to a certain extent be accessible enough to seem applicable to a reader's frame of reference, writers like...

... Ezra Žižek Slavoj signifying process Warner Michael explanation Pinker Steven finitude King Lear Shakespeare response separation finitude understanding others Ernst Gellner Herbert Marcuse Judith Butler Slavoj Žižek "Bad Writing Contest" J. L. Austin Ludwig Wittgenstein critique...

... Judith Butler crisis capital urban rural divide Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is a city under large-scale renovation: dusty landscapes of the older city are rapidly erased and demolished, to be replaced by the green landscaping of the new. In this spatial reinscription of entire parts of the existing city...

... for an inconsolable loss. The refusal in melancholia to accept the finality of death is reworked in terms of the relational ethics of Judith Butler, in which one element in a bond of attachment may be lost, but the affective ties live on, affording new possibilities of hope in the future. Boer War Chamberlain Joseph...

... Merleau-Ponty contests the disembodied nature of Kant’s postulate by examining the ambiguities of touching/being touched/touching oneself. Intriguingly different interpretations of Merleau-Ponty by Daniel Heller-Roazen and Judith Butler are shown to address the otherness in self-affection...

... the significance of devotional poetry's relational selfhood, the book compares it to modern theories of subjectivity and selfhood by Judith Butler and Hannah Arendt, in particular. Instead of being constituted by shared frailties (as Butler observes), or defined by individual narratives (as Arendt contends...

... a character who appears to be a modern-day Oedipus; Harvey Keitel’s performance shows us the actor/character speaking to himself in a manner that appears continuous with the colonialist ruins that provide his backdrop. Arguing that the dialogical framework inherited by Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero from...

...This chapter explores the performative turn in the United States through a reading of Judith Butler. Practice theory is a realm that brings together decision making and symbolism in a dynamic relationship—a relationship that produces a more fluid conception of structures and a more structured...

... and women’s work in Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and Foucault; Emma Goldman, Gayle Rubin, Luce Irigaray, and Judith Butler. marriage Mungiu Cristian Occident Mungiu actress class travel Cold War domestic work East Europe European Union feminism Goldman Emma Irigaray Luce mobility political economy Rubin...

... addresses the unacknowledged influence of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956) in Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990), suggesting that post-structuralist critics including Butler failed to reckon with the emptiness of Goffman’s account of the self. Finally, this chapter addresses Goffman’s...

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