Judith Butler. Primo Levi for the Present. 2006 10/10

http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, feminist philosopher lecturing about "Primo Levi for the Present"; narrative accounts, forgiveness, holocaust, Auschwitz, victims, execution, war, and crime, while asking the question: "What is to give an Account of Oneself?". Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, Judith Butler

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and an American feminist and post-structuralist philosopher interested in feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, ethics, zionism, israel, oppression, academic freedom and cultural narrative.

Judith Butler is the author of Giving An Account of Oneself; Undoing Gender; Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.

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[aniamourinho]

@thetrueanticool agree with you!!!!!!!!! she is such a delight

[thetrueanticool]

Judith Butler is one of the most intelligent, most well spoken human being I have ever had the pleasure of coming across. She is a gift academia, and I look forward to learning from her shortly at Berkley.

[enchantable]

gifted philosopher

[spritelylimber]

I love you, Judith Butler. I love you.