Category Archives: Judith Butler

Willing the impossible: an interview with Judith Butler

Posted on July 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Democracy (via Maoquai)

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Judith Butler’s Honorary Doctorate Address at McGill University

Posted on June 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s Honorary Doctorate Address at McGill University. A powerful defence of the humanities and reading texts.

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Books received

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (really wanted this to re-read Sartre’s preface); Michael Mack’s How Literature Changes the Way we Think; Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou’s Disposession; David Chandler’s Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations; an old New Left … Continue reading →

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Chris Harker on Judith Butler’s Parting Ways

Posted on February 21, 2013 by stuartelden

My Durham colleague Chris Harker discusses Judith Butler’s Parting Ways – here and here.

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Judith Butler’s remarks at Brooklyn College

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

The Nation has published Judith Butler’s talk to the event at Brooklyn College on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

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Brooklyn College, Butler, Arendt and Academic Freedom

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Judith Butler continues to be criticised for her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions program, most recently for the debate due to be hosted at Brooklyn College on 7th February. Various people including Alan Dershowitz have said such an event … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler at the American Academy of Religion

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

A20-402 Plenary Address: Judith Butler from American Academy of Religion on Vimeo. (via Berfrois)

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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Judith Butler, Dispossession

Posted on January 26, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Judith Butler’s recent Parting Ways before, but she has a new book coming out with Polity in the next month or so – Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. I’ve not seen this mentioned before. It’s a series … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, Parting Ways reviewed at NDPR

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s new book Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism is reviewed at NDPR.

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