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In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

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It's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise. * Bookforum *
A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought. * Brooklyn Rail *
Here is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom. -- Homi K. Bhabha
Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. -- J.M. Bernstein

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and

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      Publisher Verso Books
      Published 13 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9781788738613
      978-1788738613
      ISBN-10 1788738616
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      Non Fiction Politics, Philosophy & Society Feminism and feminist theory Geopolitics Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

      Trade Review
      It's clear that its author is still interested in stirring up trouble-academic, political and otherwise. * Bookforum *
      A book that shines with the splendor of engaged thought. * Brooklyn Rail *
      Here is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom. -- Homi K. Bhabha
      Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. -- J.M. Bernstein

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