Judith Butlerová Knihy

Judith Butler je profesorkou na Kalifornskej univerzite v Berkeley. Teoreticky sa venuje problematike moci, rodu, sexuality, jazyka a identity. Kniha Trampoty s rodom významným spôsobom ovplyvnila myslenie nielen v akademických kruhoch, ale aj v iných štruktúrach spoločnosti. Autorka knihy Judith Butler je dnes, dvadsaťštyri rokov od prvého vydania knihy Trampoty s rodom, intelektuálkou globálneho významu. Svedčí to o troch veciach: Po prvé, že problematika rodu sa stala predmetom záujmu v mnohých nových prostrediach, nepatriacich do tradičných vládnucich centier produkcie poznania, a to tak z disciplinárneho,ako aj geografického hľadiska. Po druhé, že myslenie autorky sa sústreďuje na otázky ľudskej existencie v širokom význame, no najmä vo chvíľach, keď ľudským bytostiam hrozí neexistencia. Po tretie, že sa Butler usiluje o také sprostredkovanie svojich postojov a argumentov, ktoré je zrozumiteľné v rôznych kontextoch.

Kniha významné politické a feministické teoretičky Judith Butlerové se věnuje současným válkám a otázce: za které životy (ne)truchlíme. Pokud život není "takový, za kterým bude truchleno", je snazší připustit jeho zmaření. Autorka promlouvá k publiku "prvního světa", které se hlásí k demokratickým hodnotám a lidským a občanským právům. Proč je přijatelné vést války nebo uplatňovat nadvládu nad druhými? Jak se přihlásit k požadavku nenásilí? V Rámcích války vychází Butlerová z přesvědčení, že život každého je do jisté míry vždy v rukou druhých.

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather.

This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.

Explores the media's portrayal of state violence and its influence on how the western world engages in warfare, contending that misleading depictions of oppressed or troubled foreign nations has prompted the rationalization of the deaths of large population groups. Reprint.

Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series 100 Notes,100 Thoughts ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned essays. These notebooks express director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's curatorial vision for Documenta 13.

At once profound, accessible, and utterly essential-an animated conversation between two eminent thinkers illuminating what we mean when we talk about living.

What does it mean to lead an ethical life under vexed social and linguistic conditions? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice -one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America 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.

Sarah Calhoun is the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Elector Andrew Calhoun, one of Appalachees military heroes and one of the electors who gets to decide who will next ascend asthe Emperor of the New World. None of that matters to Sarah. She has a natural talent for hexing and one bad eye, and all she wants is to be left aloneespecially by outsiders. But Sarahs world gets turned on its head at the Nashville Tobacco Fair when a Yankee wizard-priesttries to kidnap her. Sarah fights back with the aid of a mysterious monk named Thalanes, who is one of the not-quite-human Firstborn, the Moundbuilders of the Ohio. It is Thalanes who reveals to