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

5.0

Still incredibly prescient, even though it was written in the wake of 9/11 and the American invasion of Afghanistan. The essay “Violence, Mourning, Politics” is one of the best pieces of writing from Butler that I’ve read (and I wrote a master’s thesis on her so I’ve done a decent amount of Butler reading) and it really helped me parse and think through the current Western reactions to Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine vs those same reactions to America’s imperialist invasions in the Middle East.