Butler and ethics / [electronic resource]
Lloyd, Moya, author.
Lloyd, Moya,1960-editor.
Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, the volume asks: has there been an 'ethical turn' in Butlers work or are we seeing the culmination of ethical ideas in her earlier work? How do her ethics relate to her politics, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict? Breaking new ground in Butler scholarship, Butler and Ethics advances ongoing debates about materiality and the body, biopolitics, affect theory, precariousness and subjectification.
Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Signifying Otherwise: Liveability and Language ; 2 Undoing Ethics: Butler on Precarity, Opacity and Responsibility ; 3 Butler's Ethical Appeal: Being, Feeling and Acting Responsible ; 4 Violence, Affect and Ethics ; 5 Sensate Democracy and Grievable Life ; 6 Two Regimes of the Human: Butler and the Politics of Mattering ; 7 The Ethics and Politics of Vulnerable Bodies ; 8 Subjectivation and the Social Formation Subjectivation, the Social and a (Missing) Account of the Social Formation: Judith Butler's 'Turn'
Notes on Contributors Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, the volume asks: has there been an 'ethical turn' in Butlers work or are we seeing the culmination of ethical ideas in her earlier work? How do her ethics relate to her politics, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict? Breaking new ground in Butler scholarship, Butler and Ethics advances ongoing debates about materiality and the body, biopolitics, affect theory, precariousness and subjectification.
Butler, Judith, 1956-
Social ethics.
Ethics.