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The Judith Butler Reader

Judith Butler editor Sara Salih editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:16th Dec '03

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The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.

  • Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity
  • Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and Sara Salih
  • Collects together writings that span Butler’s impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works
  • Includes an introduction and editorial material to assist students in their readings of theories that stand at the forefront of contemporary theoretical and political debates

"Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. The Judith Butler Reader provides an exemplary selection from across the whole range of Butler's writings: gender identity, performativity, subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. In making available in one place the full breadth of Butler's thought, Salih's reader will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research


"These important essays represent the aspirational and analytic agendas of Judith Butler's remarkable work. Hers 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, Harvard University

ISBN: 9780631225942

Dimensions: 231mm x 153mm x 31mm

Weight: 590g

384 pages