Лучшие произведения Джудит Батлер

Джудит Батлер (р. 1956) – ведущий американский теоретик власти, гендера, сексуальности и идентичности. В США ее называют «одной из самых выдающихся философов и критиков современности». В этой книге Батлер развивает постфукианский подход к проблеме власти и к проблеме субъективности – теорию психики власти, в которой она исследует механизм задействования властью…

In their 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.

Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a liveable life.