
Butler and Ethics
Moya Lloyd(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 16. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-7486-7885-3 (ISBN)
Description
Judith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble (1990), the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. However, with the publication of Giving an Account of Oneself in 2005, it appeared that her work had taken a different turn: away from considerations of sex, gender, sexuality and politics, and towards ethics. Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, these 9 essays ask whether there has been an 'ethical turn' in Butler's work, exploring how ethics relate to politics and how they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict.
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Moya Lloyd's edited volume Butler and Ethics represents a valuable contribution to scholarly literature on the work of Judith Butler. One merit of the volume is that, far from speaking in a uniform voice, the authors take up a diversity of positions on Butler's thought, diverging with respect to the value of central concepts (such as recognition, livability, grievability and vulnerability), the status of normativity and Butler's 'ethical turn', and the strength or radicalness of her politics. Common themes include the role of affect in ethics, the relationship between politics and ethics, political demonstration, contestation or appeal and Butler's appropriation of other thinkers (e.g., Althusser, Levinas). The volume also performs the helpful service of forging connections between Butler's more recent work (e.g., Giving an Account of Oneself, Frames of War, Parting Ways and Dispossession) and the concepts at the heart of her earlier work, such as performativity, intelligibility and subjection. -- Erinn Cunniff Gilson, University of North Florida * Contemporary Political Theory * There is no better guide to Judith Butler's work to date, and to the 'ethical turn' debate about it, than this carefully structured volume. Lloyd and her contributors tackle all the definitional questions, including the concept of ethics itself, as well as key terms, including grief, liveability, vulnerability and violence. * Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 232 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-7885-3 (9780748678853)
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Moya Lloyd is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.
Content
Notes on Contributors
IntroductionMoya Lloyd
Signifying Otherwise: Liveability and LanguageNathan Gies
Undoing Ethics: Butler on Precarity, Opacity and ResponsibilityCatherine Mills
Butler's Ethical Appeal: Being, Feeling, Acting ResponsibleSara Rushing
Violence, Affect, EthicsBirgit Schippers
Sensate Democracy and Grievable LifeFiona Jenkins
Two Regimes of the Human: Butler and the Politics of MatteringDrew Walker
The Ethics and Politics of Vulnerable BodiesMoya Lloyd
Subjectivation, the Social, and a (Missing) Account of the Social Formation: Judith Butler's 'Turn'Samuel A. Chambers
Notes on ContributorsIndex
IntroductionMoya Lloyd
Signifying Otherwise: Liveability and LanguageNathan Gies
Undoing Ethics: Butler on Precarity, Opacity and ResponsibilityCatherine Mills
Butler's Ethical Appeal: Being, Feeling, Acting ResponsibleSara Rushing
Violence, Affect, EthicsBirgit Schippers
Sensate Democracy and Grievable LifeFiona Jenkins
Two Regimes of the Human: Butler and the Politics of MatteringDrew Walker
The Ethics and Politics of Vulnerable BodiesMoya Lloyd
Subjectivation, the Social, and a (Missing) Account of the Social Formation: Judith Butler's 'Turn'Samuel A. Chambers
Notes on ContributorsIndex