Judith Butler is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, where they have taught since 1993. They are the author, most famously, of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (1993). Their other books include Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012), The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020) and What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology (2022). They gave an LRB Winter Lecture in 2011 entitled ‘Who owns Kafka?’ and appear on Adam Shatz’s podcast series, Human Conditions (sign up here).
This week two conversations with the feminist theorist and writer Judith Butler: one recorded the week Trump won the presidency in 2016 and one recorded a few days ago, as his presidency (just maybe) approaches...
Judith Butler delivers her lecture on the battle for ownership of Kafka and his manuscripts.
In 1987, three years before Gender Trouble made her the most famous feminist philosopher in the United States, Judith Butler published a book on Hegel’s dialectic of lordship and bondage...
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