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Uploaded on May 5, 2007

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.

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

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    Thanks for posting this!

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

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  • aniamourinho

    pues yo puedo hacerlo

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  • shakeyourdimsims

    hey Jude

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    wow. crazy dude. :)

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  • Niccolo Boldrin

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

    "human relationality" ???

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  • kenbirk

    She should be invited to EGS next year.

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  • 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.

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