Butler and Ethics

Moya Lloyd

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

Butler and Ethics

Moya Lloyd

In the series Critical Connections

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748678860

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About this book

9 essays give the first sustained evaluation of Judith Butler's alleged ethical turn

Judith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble (1990), the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. However, with the publication of Giving an Account of Oneself in 2005, it appeared that her work had taken a different turn: away from considerations of sex, gender, sexuality and politics, and towards ethics.

Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, this volume asks: has there been an ‘ethical turn’ in Butlers work or is the increasing emphasis on ethics the culmination of ideas in her earlier work? How do ethics relate to politics in her work, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict?

Butler and Ethics breaks new ground in scholarship on Butler and will also advance on-going debates about materiality and the body, biopolitics, affect theory, precariousness and subjectification.

Contributors

Birgit Schippers • Catherine Mills • Drew Walker • Fiona Jenkins • Moya Lloyd • Nathan Gies • Samuel A. Chambers • Sara Rushing

Key Features

Explores the relation between politics and ethics in Butler’s writings
Explores Butler’s understanding of the body in relation to both politics and ethics, feminist and non-feminist
Looks at work from the full span of Butler’s career up to Frames of War

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction Mona Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Signifying Otherwise: Liveability and Language Nathan Gies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Undoing Ethics: Butler on Precarity, Opacity and Responsibility Catherine Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. Butler’s Ethical Appeal: Being, Feeling and Acting Responsible Sara Rushing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. Violence, Affect and Ethics Birgit Schippers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. Sensate Democracy and Grievable Life Fiona Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. Two Regimes of the Human: Butler and the Politics of Mattering Drew Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7. The Ethics and Politics of Vulnerable Bodies Moya Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
8. Subjectivation, the Social and a (Missing) Account of the Social Formation: Judith Butler’s ‘Turn’ Samuel A. Chambers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: June 3, 2015
ISBN: 9780748678860