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Presents Judith Butler's interest in plurality of bodily lives and her search for a social transformation conducive to a more livable world * Offers a novel understanding of Butler’ work as a call for an insurrection at the level of the real * Provides a framework based on an intersection of four main pillar-concepts, performativity, agency, livable life and non-violence * Reads Butler’s philosophy as centred on bodies * Reads Butler’s work as a convincing counter-argument against liberal versions of ontology This book is the only monograph-length study of the work of Judith Butler to focus on the entire scope of her work, including the last decade of her writing. In light of these texts, it presents a fresh interpretation of Butler’s political thought, oriented by the idea of an insurrection at the level of the real. Chapters on ontology, performativity, agency and precariousness, a liveable life and non-violence explain how Butler’s thought has always been focused on embodied performances. Instead of seeing Butler as simply a thinker of the subversive performance of cultural scripts, the book frames her work for the twenty-first century as an ambitious and coherent egalitarian al

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Author

Adriana Zaharijevic

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781399517102

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Political Science