The Philosopher
Judith Butler
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- American
- Schools:
- Continental philosophy, Third-wave feminism, Critical theory, Queer theory, Performative turn
- Branchs:
- Feminist theory, Political philosophy, Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Discourse, Embodiment, Sexuality, Gender studies, Jewish philosophy
- Period:
- 20th/21st-century
The synopsis
The works
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Excitable speech: a politics of the performative
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Undoing gender
Giving an account of oneself
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
Who's Afraid of Gender?