1st Edition

Judith Butler and Political Theory Troubling Politics

By Samuel Chambers, Terrell Carver Copyright 2008
196 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanation of her terms of analysis, Judith Butler and Political Theory develops Butler’s... Read more

Introduction Part 1:  Terms of political analysis 1. Power/Sex/Gender  2. Performativity/Citationality  3. The Body  Part 2: Theories of the political  4. Normative Violence  5. Political Ontology  Part 3: The politics of heteronormativity  6. Kinship Trouble  7. Subversion  Bibliography

Biography

Samuel A. Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Swansea University, where he teaches political theory and cultural politics. He writes broadly in contemporary thought, including work on language, culture, and the politics of gender and sexuality.

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on theoretical issues relevant to sex, gender and sexuality.