Judith Butler and Political Theory
Troubling Politics
Price: $44.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-38366-0
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24th January 2008
- Pages: 200
About the Book
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanation of her terms of analysis, Judith Butler and Political Theory develops Butler’s theory of the political through an exploration of her politics of troubling given categories and approaches. By developing concepts such as normative violence and subversion and by elaborating her critique of heteronormativity, this book moves deftly between Butler’s earliest and most famous writings on gender and her more recent interventions in post-9/11 politics.
This book, along with its companion volume, Judith Butler's Precarious Politics, marks an intellectual event for political theory, with major implications for feminism, women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and anyone with a critical interest in contemporary American ‘great power’ politics.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Terms of Political Analysis 1. Power/Sex/Gender 2. Performativity/Citationality 3. The Body Part 2: Theories of the Political 4. Normative Violence 5. Political Ontology Part 3: The Politics of Heteronormativity 6. Kinship Trouble 7. Subversion
About the Author(s)
Samuel A. Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Swansea University, where he teaches political theory and cultural politics. He writes broadly in contemporary thought, including work on language, culture, and the politics of gender and sexuality.
Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on theoretical issues relevant to sex, gender and sexuality.
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