Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly / Judith Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Judith, 1956- author.

Series:

Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College Series

Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College Series ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assembly, Right of--Social aspects.

Assembly, Right of.

Public meetings.

Demonstrations.

Performative (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force and theme in today’s highly visible protests. “Butler’s book is everything that a book about our planet in the 21st century should be. It does not turn its back on the circumstances of the material world or give any succour to those who wish to view the present (and the future) through the lens of fantasies about the transformative possibilities offered by conventional politics Butler demonstrates a clear engagement with an aspect of the world that is becoming in many political contexts almost illicit to discuss: the idea that capitalism, certainly in its neoliberal form, is failing to provide a liveable life for the majority of human beings.” —Mary Evans, Times Higher Education “A heady immersion into the thought of one of today’s most profound philosophers of action…This is a call for a truly transformative politics, and its relevance to the fraught struggles taking place in today’s streets and public spaces around the world cannot be denied.” —Hans Rollman, PopMatters

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Gender Politics and the Right to Appear

2. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street

3. Precarious Life and the Ethics of Cohabitation

4. Bodily Vulnerability, Coalitional Politics

5. “We the People”– Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly

6. Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Notes:

"The Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College."

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780674495562

067449556X

9780674495548

0674495543

OCLC:

1029829515