Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023

Just an expensive hardback only at this point unfortunately

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.