Judith Butler's Precarious Politics

<p>Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past twenty years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory.</p><p>Each chapter is written by an acclaimed political theorist and concentrates on a particular aspect of Butler's work. The book is divided into five sections which reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Butler's work and activism:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Butler and Philosophy: explores Butler’s unique relationship to the discipline of philosophy considering her work in light of its philosophical contributions</li> <p> </p> <li>Butler and Subjectivity: covers the vexed question of subjectivity with which Butler has engaged throughout her published history</li> <p> </p> <li>Butler and Gender: considers the most problematic area gender taken by many to be primary to Butler’s work</li> <p> </p> <li>Butler and Democracy: engages with Butler’s significant contribution to the literature of radical democracy and to the central political issues faced by our post-cold war </li> <p> </p> <li>Butler and Action: focuses directly on the question of political agency and political action in Butler’s work. </li> </ul><p>Along with its companion volume <em>Judith Butler and Political Theory</em> it marks an intellectual event for political theory with major implications for feminism women’s studies gender studies cultural studies lesbian and gay studies queer theory and anyone with a critical interest in contemporary American ‘great power’ politics.</p>