Product details. Furthermore, Butler argues, the U.S. at the time of "9/11" (and the aftermath) had an opportunity to critically rethink itself -- the way it has been conducting itself -- as a military and economic global power. The precarity of life is always through face of the other and by relating back to work from Foucault, Agamben and Levinas, her political philosophy is meaningful, powerful and always thoughtful. Butler's stuff (in my experience) feels a bit redundant and I can definitely see how all of her work connects with one another.
It was a scattershot time, and some of these essays are a little scattershot.
The essay about anti-semitism especially feels like it has been more ably taken up, including more recently by Butler herself in her essay about Bari Weiss's book, though both have an element of something missing in their articulations.
Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of "Let's face it. I was particularly interested in this book for its' focus on mourning and what constitutes "the human" (because that is what my research focuses on). I think some topics maybe haven't aged well, or at least are really more like sources for a specific time than necessarily have the staying power of other work.
I was particularly interested in this book for its' focus on mourning and what constitutes "the human" (because that is what my research focuses on). I think some topics maybe haven't aged well, or at least are really more like sources for a specific time than necessarily have the staying power of other work.
When we lose some of these ties by which we are constituted, we do not know who we are or what to do.
This has been a great read. Paperback: 168 pages; Publisher: Verso; Reprint edition (August 17, 2006) At another level, perhaps what I have lost 'in' you, that for which I have no ready vocabulary, is a relationality that is composed neither exclusively of myself nor you, but is to be conceived of the tie by which those terms are differentiated and related" (22).
I quote this to highlight one of the most valuable aspects of the book: relationality. This is gonna be a book that will remain relevant as it ages despite engaging directly with the context of its' times (Butler focuses a lot on 9/11). 1844675440 Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence Judith Butler No preview available - 2020. On one level, I think I have lost 'you' only to discover that 'I' have gone missing as well. It was a scattershot time, and some of these essays are a little scattershot.
As we know, this was refused, and the U.S. chose to continue in its destructive ways. I was expecting more than it delivered.One of the reviews on the back of this book describes it as one of Butler's most accessible.
Is one more various than the other?Important questions raised but i am not feeling content, intention and style matching. She tries to build things when most politicians want to erect walls by playing identity politics.I think it is a great book.
In this age of US versus Them, unfortunately, sane voices are curbed, ridiculed, and dubbed as naive across the globe.
In this age of US versus Them, unfortunately, sane voices are curbed, ridiculed, and dubbed as naive across the globe. by Verso to "What do we lose in loss?" The book is premised on what has come to constitute a human being: namely, as that which counts as a liveable life and a grieveable death.
Welcome back. If I lose you, under these conditions, then I not only mourn the loss, I become inscrutable to myself.
(23)This is a very interesting book, although a bit dated.
Precarious Life, written just after the events of 9/11 in response to trauma, heightened vulnerability, fear, aggression, and our subsequent engagement in perpetual war, remains a timely and necessary read. This philosophical and theoretical text argues that the U.S. never "properly" grieved and mourned, but rather moved straight to lashing out, which created (and continues to create, I would argue, as others have, too) an incredible amount pain and suffering, and in the end did not help the U.S.'s mourning. Be the first to ask a question about Precarious Life With thinkers like Butler, one can see what they are trying to do, and what truly motivates them. They also get more dense as the book goes on, and a little less accessible.
Furthermore, she is critical against notions of human rights, but on the other hand argues that human right2019: Always worth a read, and re-read.
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I agree.One of the reviews on the back of this book describes it as one of Butler's most accessible. I agree.Butler goes off every single time and this is no exception Judith Butler stuns again, academic prose written so eloquently, full of emotion that you forget that this draws from the events of 9/11.
This philosophical and theoretical text argues that the U.S. never "properly" grieved and mourned, but rather moved straight to lashing out, which created (and continues to create, I would argue, as others have, too) an incredible amount pain and suffering, and in the end did not help the U.S.'s mourning.
to "Why are only some lives grievable?" Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community.
But maybe when we undergo what we do, something about who we are is revealed, something that delineates the ties we have to others, that shows us that these ties constitute what we are, ties or bonds that compose us. (2004) PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE.. VERSO.
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