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Judith Butler

(1956) Philosopher United States

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Judith Butler is a philosopher from the United States, best known for Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

Quick Facts About Judith Butler

Born: February 24, 1956
Nationality: United States
Profession: Philosopher
Notable works: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Known for: Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, Q57075030, Q65015597

About Judith Butler

Judith Butler is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Catalonia International Prize Theodor W. Adorno Award Guggenheim Fellowship Albertus-Magnus professorate Brudner Prize Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Honorary doctor of the University of Liège Fellow of the British Academy

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Honorary doctor of the University of Fribourg honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University honorary doctorate from the McGill University honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII

Quotes by Judith Butler · Page 7

Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are…

Certain

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Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and…

Existence

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So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but…

Certain

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Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal…

Access

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“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with…

Power

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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

Norm

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Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his…

Constitutional rights

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No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the…

Community

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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

Kind

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“Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss…

Communication

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It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power…

Bias

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The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up…

Able

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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more…

Activist

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Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into…

Absolutes

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Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare…

Form

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Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they…

Common

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“The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead…

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I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people…

Articulating

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I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people…

Answers

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The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in…

Argument

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All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To…

Mean

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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

Capture

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My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a…

After

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“To be injured means that one has the chance to reflect upon injury, to find out the mechanisms of its distribution, to…

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Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the…

Dehumanization

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Judith Butler by topic

Gender (46) Way (40) People (40) Thinking (36) Kind (27) Life (26) Important (25) War (24) Form (24) Ifs (21) World (19) States (19) Certain (19) Mean (18) Needs (17)