Palgrave Macmillan | Judith Butler And Subjectivity: The Possibilities And Limits Of The Human (2020 EN)

Author: Parisa Shams
Full Title: Judith Butler And Subjectivity: The Possibilities And Limits Of The Human
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (August 6, 2020)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9789811560514 (978-981-15-6051-4), 9789811560507 (978-981-15-6050-7)
ISBN-10: 981156051X, 9811560501
Pages: 81
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy: Modern Philosophy
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 53.49 €


This book contextualises philosophy by bringing Judith Butler’s critique of identity into dialogue with an analysis of the transgressive self in dramatic literature. The author draws on Butler’s reflections on human agency and subjectivity to offer a fresh perspective for understanding the political and ethical stakes of identity as formed within a complex web of relations with human and non-human others. The book first positions a detailed analysis of Butler’s theory of subject formation within a broader framework of feminist philosophy and then incorporates examples and case studies from dramatic literature to argue that the subject is formed in relation to external forces, yet within its formation lies a space for transgressing the same environments and relations that condition the subject’s existence. By virtue of a fundamental dependency on conditions and relations that bring human beings into existence, they emerge as political and ethical agents capable of resisting the formative forces of power and responding – ethically – to the call of others.


Overview:
✓ Offers an analysis of the transgressive self in dramatic literature
✓ Considers Judith Butler's critique of identity and human agency
✓ Explores the concept of human beings as political and ethical agents capable of resisting formative forces of power and responding – ethically – to the call of others

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