Frames of War

When Is Life Grievable?

Judith Butler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2010
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-84467-626-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The media's portrayal of state violence has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole people, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. This title explores this portrayal, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war.

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In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a re-conceptualization of the Left, one united in opposition and resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of interventionist military action.

Autor

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2010
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 254 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• ISBN-10: 1-84467-626-9 / 1844676269
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-626-2 / 9781844676262
• Zustand: Neuware