A review by anicea
Gefährdetes Leben. Politische Essays by Judith Butler

4.0

In (at times) utterly gorgeous prose, Butler brings to light the problems with dehumanizing others in the world - be it by responding to violence with violence, indefinitely detaining prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, reducing critiques of Israel to anti-Semitism, etc. At the core of each of the five essays in this collection is the question of what it means to be constituted, politically, as a human being. This book is now one of my all-time favourites.