Judith Butler. Primo Levi for the Present. 2006 1/10

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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[ToroAzzurro]

it's primo levi, not levy.

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment, and thank you for spotting this. it has been corrected.

[DutiusAndersson]

Thanks for posting this!

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. i hope you enjoy the other lectures as well.

[zigulyte]

I must say having all these EGS videos available here for free is one of the best things that happened on You Tube. Many thanks!

[aniamourinho]

pues yo puedo hacerlo

[shakeyourdimsims]

hey Jude

[Nuno Branco]

wow. crazy dude. :)

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. we will be delighted to add subtitle/caption files if someone wants to provide a spanish or french translation. (search: youtube captions and subtitles). thank you.

[Niccolo Boldrin]

SHE doesn't even understand what the hell she is reading!!!!

"human relationality" ???

[kenbirk]

She should be invited to EGS next year.

[Cory Salveson]

Actually, as she describes herself in JUDITH BUTLER, PHILOSOPHE EN TOUT GENRE, a documentary about her life, I believe she talks about being critically "undeclared," "undecided," or somesuch. The more of her stuff you read, the more it makes sense; if gender/sexuality is performative, then sexuality is only an accumulation of who you've been in the past, thus any declaration of "this is my sexuality" can only ever be a historically contextual thing anyway.