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Precarious Life

The Power of Mourning and Violence

By Judith Butler

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| Paperback | 9781844675449

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"A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought."—The Brooklyn Rail

Judith Butler is one of America's most daring and vibrant thinkers. In this profound appraisal of post-September 11th America, now with a new foreword, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightenContinue

"A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought."—The Brooklyn Rail

Judith Butler is one of America's most daring and vibrant thinkers. In this profound appraisal of post-September 11th America, now with a new foreword, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened fear and aggression that followed the attack on the Twin Towers, and the US government's decision to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. She critiques this use of violence as a response to loss and grief, and argues that the vulnerability the West now feels offers a chance to imagine a world without violence, a world where the interdependency of peoples and nations becomes the basis for a global political community.

Through five impassioned and personal essays, Butler responds 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.

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  • Counting the cost of revenge

    Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler 151pp, Verso, £16 This little book contains five fairly indignant essays by the distinguished Californian feminist and literary critic Judith Butler, written in protest against cur ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Precarious Life

    Speaking at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center in April, General Roméo Dallaire, the commander of UN forces in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, told one of his now-trademark stories. He recalled an American official in Rwanda coming into his office a ... (read full critics)

    flakmag published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 192 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1844675440
  • ISBN-13: 9781844675449
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Pub date: Aug 15, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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