Butler and ethics

by Lloyd, Moya

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Full title :Butler and ethics / edited by Moya Lloyd.

Summary

Explores the relation between Judith Butler's work and ethics, Judith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble, the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. With the publication of Giving on Account of Oneself in 2005 it appeared as if her work had taken a different turn, away from considerations of sex, gender, sexuality and politics, and towards ethics. This collection of eight essays offers the first sustained evaluation of that alleged 'turn'. Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, the volume explores questions such as whether there has, in fact, been an 'ethical turn' in Butler's work or whether her increasing emphasis on ethics is merely the culmination of ideas inherent in her earlier writings. Precisely what kind of debt does Butler owe Levinas? What role does affect play in her most recent writings? How do ethics, politics and affect connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict? What relation does Butler envisage between grievability and sensate democracy? How do her discussions of ethico-politics relate to Butler's earlier understanding of politics as subversion? What is the nature of the relation between ethics and politics in her recent thinking? This collection will break new ground in scholarship on Butler and puts her work directly in dialogue with a number of current philosophical debates.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 226 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748678846, 0748678840
oclc:ocn910855947
LC Classification:HM665
Dewey Decimal:303.372

Signifying otherwise : liveability and language / Nathan Gies -- Undoing ethics : Butler on precarity, opacity and responsibility / Catherine Mills -- Butler's ethical appeal : being, feeling and acting responsible / Sara Rushing -- Violence, affect and ethics / Birgit Schippers -- Sensate democracy and grievable life / Fiona Jenkins -- Two regimes of the human : Butler and the politics of mattering / Drew Walker -- The ethics and politics of vulnerable bodies / Maya Lloyd -- Subjectivation, the social and a (missing) account of the social formation : Judith Butler's 'Turn' / Samuel A. Chambers.