In her work, Butler intimates that affect plays a central role in the differential structuring, or framing, of human experience, and in responses to the vulnerability...There is a moment that Judith Butler several times alludes to in illustration of how she thinks about sensate democracy (see Butler 2012a: 14; and Butler in Butler and Spivak 2007: 59–63). on JSTOR.
You do not have access to this Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, this volume asks: has there been an ‘ethical turn’ in Butlers work or is the increasing emphasis on ethics the culmination of ideas in her earlier work? In the era of human rights, the language of dehumanisation has become a dominant frame for accounting for and criticising a wide range of abuses and social harms: from the crimes of slavery to indefinite detention to the torture of ‘enemy combatants’ to the indiscriminate use of drone attacks. In a published conversation with the political theorist William Connolly from that same year, she makes a similar claim, commenting that ‘I tend to think that ethics … 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. Doubtless Butler takes her place today as one of the foremost theorists and public intellectuals; her work is widely recognised as helping to reshape a number of fields across the humanities; and she speaks with a powerful voice to a variety of national and international political contexts.
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. All Rights Reserved. We …
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). JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. How do ethics relate to politics in her work, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict?Birgit Schippers • Catherine Mills • Drew Walker • Fiona Jenkins • Moya Lloyd • Nathan Gies • Samuel A. book https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt16r0hkp Try logging in through your institution for access. Such readers worry that, in her engagement with moral philosophy, and in particular with the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Butler has retreated from some of the important political insights of her earlier work in feminist and gender theory. 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.Moya Lloyd’s edited volume Butler and Ethics represents a valuable contribution to scholarly literature on the work of Judith Butler. I examine Butler’s continued articulation of a politics and ethics of precariousness, particularly in her most recent book Why do we respond with empathy and compassion to some forms of human suffering and loss of human life, yet react with indifference or loathing to other forms of human suffering, and other losses of human life?¹ This question, raised in Judith Butler’s recent writings on violence, war and ethics,² connects her work with two current developments in humanities and social science discourses: these are the so-called ‘affective turn’, and the turn towards ethics.
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. For more information, see our The Edinburgh University Press office is closed.
How do ethics relate to politics in her work, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict? Judith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble (1990) the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. Nonetheless, I contend that precisely a social theory – or better, a...©2000-2020 ITHAKA. Books. eBook (PDF) Judith Butler’s reflections on the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center in In this essay I return to certain questions raised in my 2010 article ‘Preparing for Politics: Judith Butler’s Ethical Dispositions’.
In an essay from 2000, Judith Butler confesses her worry that the ‘return to ethics has constituted an escape from politics’ (15). Skip to main content.
Most staff are working from home. As Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen and Rebecca Walkowitz write: ‘From Aristotle and Kant to Nietzsche and Hegel to Habermas and Foucault to Derrida and Lacan and Levinas … the concept of ethics and the ethical has been reconceptualized, reformulated, and repositioned’ (2000: viii). Birgit Schippers • Catherine Mills • Drew Walker • Fiona Jenkins • Moya Lloyd • Nathan Gies • Samuel A.