Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? - Rilegato

Butler, Judith

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ISBN 10: 1844673332 ISBN 13: 9781844673339

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2009

Riassunto

Explores the media's portrayal of state violence and its influence on how the western world engages in warfare, contending that misleading depictions of oppressed or troubled foreign nations has prompted the rationalization of the deaths of large population groups.

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Recensione:

Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. 'Frames of War' is an intellectual masterpiece that weds a new understanding of being, immersed in history, to a novel Left politics that focuses on State violence, war and resistance. --Cornel West

War is 'framed' in the media so as to prevent us from recognising the people who are to be killed as living fully 'grievable' lives, like ours. That is the thesis pursued in this collection...[with] bracing close readings of the pope, Melanie Klein, Michael Walzer, Susan Sontag and poems written by Guantánamo prisoners. The best essay is the excellent 'Sexual Politics, Torture and Secular Time', in which, addressing the Abu Ghraib photos, Butler notes that 'The torture was also a way to coercively produce the Arab subject and the Arab mind', and advances the impressive gambit: 'I want to suggest that a civilisational war is at work in this context that casts the army as the more sexually progressive culture.' Elsewhere she excoriates lazy rhetoric about 'tolerance' and Islamic 'taboo', and deplores in a general way the 'inversions of discourse' in warlike rhetoric. --Guardian

Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. --J.M. Bernstein

L'autore:

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 Frames of War, Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj ?i?ek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844673332
• ISBN 13: 9781844673339
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 193