num_pages: 168
description: In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.
language: English
title: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
titlecomplete: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
genres: Feminism, Philosophy, Sociology, Queer, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Cultural Studies, Politics
ratings_count: 1883
publisher: Verso