NEW TITLE:
FRAMES OF WAR
WHEN IS LIFE GRIEVABLE?
Judith Butler
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“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous
social theorist writing today. FRAMES OF WAR is an intellectual
masterpiece.” Cornel West
“To propose that Judith Butler is one of the
world’s leading thinkers, a feminist philosopher whose writing has impacted
on a wide domain of disciplinary fields inside the academy, as well as on
political culture in the outside world, is hardly contentious. We are, many of
us, deeply indebted to this body of work which has illuminated issues that are
at the very core of life, death, sexuality and existence.” Angela
McRobbie, Times Higher Education Book of the Week
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“Frames
of War [is] an important contribution to what will no doubt be an
ongoing philosophical and political discussion about the rights and wrongs of
war.” Nina Power, The Philosopher’s Magazine
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“Judith Butler’s focus
in this collection of five essays written and revised between 2004 and 2008 is
the
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The most celebrated feminist in the
world – Gender Trouble started the Queer Theory movement and sold over
100,000 copies – returns with this powerful analysis of the role of the
media in the ‘War on Terror’.
In FRAMES OF WAR, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of
state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern
war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led
to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as
existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection.
These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and
starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes
their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the
lives of “the living.”
This disparity,
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Praise for JUDITH BUTLER:
“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most
probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.” J.M.
Bernstein
Praise for PRECARIOUS LIFE:
“It’s clear that its author is still interested in stirring up
trouble—academic, political and otherwise.” –Bookforum
“Hers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition
that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging
us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as
subjects of freedom.” Homi K. Bhabha
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JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and
Comparative Literature at the
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