Butler and Ethics / / Moya Lloyd.

9 essays give the first sustained evaluation of Judith Butler's alleged ethical turnJudith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble (1990), the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. However, with the publication of Giving an Account of Oneself in 2005, it appeared that her work...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Critical Connections : CRCO
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Signifying Otherwise: Liveability and Language
  • 2. Undoing Ethics: Butler on Precarity, Opacity and Responsibility
  • 3. Butler's Ethical Appeal: Being, Feeling and Acting Responsible
  • 4. Violence, Affect and Ethics
  • 5. Sensate Democracy and Grievable Life
  • 6. Two Regimes of the Human: Butler and the Politics of Mattering
  • 7. The Ethics and Politics of Vulnerable Bodies
  • 8. Subjectivation, the Social and a (Missing) Account of the Social Formation: Judith Butler's 'Turn'
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index