Description
Product ID: | 9780674983984 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College |
Title: | Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly |
Authors: | Author: Judith Butler |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Political ideologies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests. |
Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-02-26 |