Questo testo di Judith Butler affronta alcune tra le pagine più affascinanti e complesse scritte dal giovane Hegel: il frammento sull’Amore e il Frammento di sistema. L’intento dell’Autrice è duplice: scandagliarne il senso profondo e operare, nel contempo, una riflessione più ampia sul tema dell’amore e della vita. A partire dall’idea hegeliana dell’amore come sentimento in cui «il vivente sente il vivente», Butler incrocia fecondamente problemi classici della filosofia di Hegel (il rapporto individuo-comunità, religione-filosofia, vita-viventi) con alcuni motivi della sua più recente produzione: la precarietà della vita, il legame tra l’amore e la perdita, il potere del lutto, etc. Filo conduttore del suo itinerario è la difficoltà che il linguaggio filosofico sperimenta nel rendere conto del fenomeno dell’amore, fenomeno che «ha una sua propria logica – una logica che non fiorisce mai effettivamente in una forma definitiva, ma è caratterizzata da una illimitata apertura». L’illimitata apertura a cui, in quanto viventi, ci consegna e ci espone la vita.
Judith Butler Libri
Judith Butler è un'influente filosofa post-strutturalista e femminista il cui lavoro spazia nel femminismo, nella teoria queer, nella filosofia politica e nell'etica. La sua erudizione approfondisce la teoria letteraria, la narrativa filosofica moderna e gli studi sulla sessualità. Butler esplora anche la letteratura e la filosofia europea del XIX e XX secolo, Kafka e temi come la perdita, il lutto e la guerra. Lavori più recenti affrontano la filosofia ebraica e le critiche alla violenza di stato.







Subjects of Desire
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.
Explores the media's portrayal of state violence and its influence on how the western world engages in warfare, contending that misleading depictions of oppressed or troubled foreign nations has prompted the rationalization of the deaths of large population groups. Reprint.
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series 100 Notes,100 Thoughts ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned essays. These notebooks express director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's curatorial vision for Documenta 13.
At once profound, accessible, and utterly essential-an animated conversation between two eminent thinkers illuminating what we mean when we talk about living.
What does it mean to lead an ethical life under vexed social and linguistic conditions? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice -one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.
In her 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.
WITCHY EYE
- 800pagine
- 28 ore di lettura
Sarah Calhoun is the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Elector Andrew Calhoun, one of Appalachees military heroes and one of the electors who gets to decide who will next ascend asthe Emperor of the New World. None of that matters to Sarah. She has a natural talent for hexing and one bad eye, and all she wants is to be left aloneespecially by outsiders. But Sarahs world gets turned on its head at the Nashville Tobacco Fair when a Yankee wizard-priesttries to kidnap her. Sarah fights back with the aid of a mysterious monk named Thalanes, who is one of the not-quite-human Firstborn, the Moundbuilders of the Ohio. It is Thalanes who reveals to
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests.
Precarious Life
- 168pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.
