Judith Butler ist eine angesehene Professorin an der Graduate School der University of California, Berkeley, mit den Schwerpunkten Rhetorik und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Sie ist eine bedeutende poststrukturalistische Philosophin, deren einflussreiche Werke Feminismus, Queer-Theorie, politische Philosophie und Ethik umfassen. Butler erlangte breite Anerkennung durch ihr bahnbrechendes Buch "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity", das konventionelle Vorstellungen von Geschlecht und Identität infrage stellte. Weitere bedeutende Veröffentlichungen sind "Bodies that Matter", "Undoing Gender" und "The Psychic Life of Power", die ihre Theorien zu Performativität und Machtdynamiken weiterentwickelten.
Butlers akademische Karriere begann mit ihrer Doktorarbeit, die später unter dem Titel "Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France" veröffentlicht wurde. Ihre Forschung untersucht vielfältige Themen, von Literaturtheorie und moderner philosophischer Fiktion bis hin zu jüdischer Philosophie und Kritiken an staatlicher Gewalt. Butler hat mehrere Werke gemeinsam verfasst und herausgegeben, darunter "Who Sings the Nation-State?" mit Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak sowie "Contingency, Hegemony, Universality" mit Slavoj Žižek und Ernesto Laclau. Ihre jüngsten Veröffentlichungen wie "The Force of Nonviolence" und "Who's Afraid of Gender?" befassen sich weiterhin mit drängenden sozialen und politischen Fragen und festigen ihren Ruf als führende kritische Denkerin.
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The Judith Butler Reader
2003
Sachbücher
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Subjects Of Desire
1987
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Gender Trouble
1990
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Bodies That Matter
1993
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Excitable Speech
1997
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The Psychic Life Of Power
1997
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Antigone's Claim
2000
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
2000
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Giving An Account Of Oneself
2003
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Undoing Gender
2004
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Precarious Life
2004
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Who Sings The Nation-state?
2007
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Frames Of War
2009
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Dispossession
2013
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Senses Of The Subject
2015
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Notes Toward A Performative Theory Of Assembly
2015
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What World Is This?
2022
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The Livable And The Unlivable
2023
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Who's Afraid Of Gender?
2024
New Directions in Critical Theory Books
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Mute Speech (By: Jacques Rancière)
1998
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The Experience of Injustice (By: Emmanuel Renault, Richard A. Lynch)
2004
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Social Acceleration (By: Hartmut Rosa, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys)
2005
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Alienation (By: Frederick Neuhouser, Alan Smith, Rahel Jaeggi)
2005
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Pathologies of Reason (By: James Ingram, Axel Honneth)
2007
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Horrorism (By: William McCuaig, Adriana Cavarero)
2007
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Narrating Evil (By: Maria Pia Lara)
2007
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The Politics of Our Selves (By: Amy Allen)
2007
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Democracy and the Political Unconscious (By: Noëlle McAfee)
2008
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The Force of the Example (By: Alessandro Ferrara)
2008
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Democracy in What State? (By: Giorgio Agamben)
2009
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States Without Nations (By: Jacqueline Stevens)
2009
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The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy ( By: Donna Welch Jones)
2010
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Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique (By: Gabriel Rockhill)
2011
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Freedom's Right (By: Axel Honneth)
2011
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The Right to Justification (By: Rainer Forst, Jeffrey Flynn)
2011
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The Scandal of Reason (By: Albena Azmanova)
2012
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Media of Reason (By: Darrell Arnold, Matthias Vogel)
2012
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The Wrath of Capital (By: Adrian Parr)
2012
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What Is a People? (With: Kevin Olson, Jody Gladding, Alain Badiou, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière, Bruno Bosteels, Pierre Bourdieu, Sadri Khiari)
2013
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The Disclosure of Politics (By: Maria Pia Lara)
2013
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Radical Cosmopolitics (By: James D. Ingram)
2013
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The Power of Tolerance (By: Wendy Brown)
2014
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Imaginal Politics (By: Chiara Bottici)
2014
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Radical History and the Politics of Art (By: Gabriel Rockhill)
2014
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Starve and Immolate (By: Banu Bargu)
2014
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The Highway of Despair (By: Robyn Marasco)
2015
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A Political Economy of the Senses (By: Anita Sridhar Chari)
2015
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The End of Progress (By: Amy Allen)
2016
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On the Difficulty of Living Together (By: Manuel Cruz, Richard Jacques)
2016
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Political Responsibility (By: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo)
2016
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Recognition or Disagreement (By: Jacques Rancière, Axel Honneth, Katia Genel, Jean-Philippe Deranty)
2016
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Left-Wing Melancholia (By: Enzo Traverso)
2016
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Death and Mastery (By: Benjamin Y Fong)
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Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later (By: Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, Samir Haddad)
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Political Uses of Utopia (By: James Ingram, S.D. Chrostowska)
2017
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Critical Theory in Critical Times (By: Penelope Deutscher, Cristina Lafont)
2017
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The Habermas Handbook (By: Regina Kreide, Cristina Lafont, Hauke Brunkhorst)
2017
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Birth of a New Earth (By: Adrian Parr)
2017
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The Return of Work in Critical Theory (By: Christophe Dejours)
2018
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Genealogies of Terrorism (By: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson)
2018
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Praxis and Revolution (By: Eva von Redecker, Lucy Duggan)
2018
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Queer Terror (By: C. Heike Schotten)
2018
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The Practice of Political Theory (By: Clayton Chin)
2018
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Naming Violence (By: Mathias Thaler)
2018
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Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left (By: Peter Thompson)
2018
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Fear of Breakdown (By: Noëlle McAfee)
2019
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Transitional Subjects (By: Brian O'Connor, Amy Allen, Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, Sara Beardsworth, Noëlle McAfee, C. Fred Alford, Alessandro Ferrera, Owen Hulatt, James Martel, Johanna Meehan)
2019
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A Time for Critique (By: Bernard E. Harcourt, Didier Fassin)
2019
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Capitalism on Edge (By: Albena Azmanova)
2020
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Critique on the Couch (By: Amy Allen)
2020
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Hermeneutics as Critique (By: Lorenzo C. Simpson)
2021
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Recognition and Ambivalence
2021
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Crisis Under Critique (By: Axel Honneth, Didier Fassin)
2022
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Fascist Mythologies ( By: Federico Finchelstein)
2022
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Another Universalism (By: Stefan Eich, Anna Jurkevics, Nishin Nathwani, Nica Siegel)
2023
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Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism (By: Jonathan Judaken)
2024
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Books
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To Carl Schmitt (By: Jacob Taubes)
1987
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A Hedonist Manifesto (By: Michel Onfray)
2000
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Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing (By: Catherine Malabou)
2004
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Factory of Strategy (By: Antonio Negri)
2004
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Spinoza for Our Time (By: Antonio Negri)
2004
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What Does Europe Want? (By: Slavoj Žižek, Srećko Horvat)
2005
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Rage and Time (By: Peter Sloterdijk)
2006
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After the Death of God (By: Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo)
2007
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The Politics of Postsecular Religion (By: Ananda Abeysekara)
2008
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Nietzsche and Levinas (By: Jill Stauffer)
2008
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Philosophical Temperaments (By: Peter Sloterdijk)
2009
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Strange Wonder (By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein)
2009
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Religion and the Specter of the West (By: Arvind-Pal S. Mandair)
2009
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Anatheism (By: Richard Kearney)
2009
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Our Broad Present (By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht)
2010
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Radical Democracy and Political Theology (By: Jeffrey W. Robbins)
2010
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Heidegger (By: Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin)
2010
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There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship (By: Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin)
2010
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Hermeneutic Communism (By: Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala)
2011
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A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul (By: Stanislas Breton)
2011
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Radical Political Theology (By: Clayton Crockett)
2011
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Hegel and the Infinite (By: Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis)
2011
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What Does a Jew Want? (With: Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Udi Aloni)
2011
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Sociophobia (By: César Rendueles)
2013
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The Incident at Antioch (By: Alain Badiou)
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Deleuze Beyond Badiou (By: Clayton Crockett)
2013
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Self and Emotional Life (By: Catherine Malabou, Adrian Johnston)
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Encountering Religion (By: Tyler T. Roberts)
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Cut of the Real (By: Katerina Kolozova)
2014
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A Materialism for the Masses (By: Ward Blanton)
2014
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Wrestling with the Angel (By: Tracy McNulty)
2014
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Cloud of the Impossible (By: Catherine Keller)
2014
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Force of God (By: Carl A. Raschke)
2015
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Nietzsche Versus Paul (By: Abed Azzam)
2015
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Christo-Fiction (By: François Laruelle)
2015
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Harmattan (By: Michael D. Jackson)
2015
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Paul's Summons to Messianic Life (By: L.L. Welborn)
2015
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Reimagining the Sacred (By: Richard Kearney, Jens Zimmermann)
2015
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An Insurrectionist Manifesto (By: Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Peter Rollins, Catherine Keller, Jeffrey Robbins, Noelle Vahanian)
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The Work of Art (By: Michael D. Jackson)
2016
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The Intimate Universal (By: William Desmond)
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Excessive Subjectivity (By: Dominik Finkelde)
2017
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American Immanence (By: Michael S. Hogue)
2018
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Political Theology of the Earth (By: Catherine Keller)
2018
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Unbearable Life (By: Arthur Bradley)
2019
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Ecce Humanitas (By: Brad Evans)
2021
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Accidental Agents (By: Martin Crowley)
2022
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Energy and Change (By: Clayton Crockett)
2022
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Infinite Greed (By: Adrian Johnston)
2024
Judith Butler Anthologies
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The Scandal of the Speaking Body
1980
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Spectacular Optical
1998
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Comparative Political Culture in the Age of Globalization
2002
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Women and Social Transformation
2003
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Queer Theory
2005
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Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
2011
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What Is a People?
2013
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A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria
2014
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A Life with Mary Shelley
2014
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Think in Public
2019
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Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
2019
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The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007