Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler

Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence

Judith Butler

168 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Butler considers the means by which some lives become grief-worthy, while others are perceived as undeserving of grief or even incomprehensible as lives. She discusses the political implications of sovereignty in light of the prisoners in Guantana...

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challenging 78%
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hopeful 14%
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tense 7%

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