Description
This Czech-language book responds to the objections Judith Butler faced after the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, particularly criticism that her early account of the performative constitution of gender did not sufficiently address the body as materiality. Butler examines how the very question of bodily materiality is from the outset conditioned by symbolic mechanisms. More than a polemical text, the book develops her ideas through genuine dialogue with feminist theorists including Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, major philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century such as Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida, and psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. It also explores literature through Nella Larsen and Willa Cather, political theory through Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, and gay and lesbian subcultures. Its interdisciplinary scope makes it one of Butler’s most important works.
Information
Author: Butlerová Judith
Language: Czech
Publication date: November 15, 2016
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Karolinum
Genres: Social sciences, Non-fiction literature, Books, Specialized and technical literature, Law
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 342
ISBN/EAN: 9788024633251