Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (882 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415915880 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.. With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation
"this book offers a challenging analysis of the free speech debates and points to an "unanticipated political future for deconstructive thinking" Butler makes a compelling case that our laws- and our lives- are determined by conceptual frameworks By rethinking the contexts of verbal conduct, this book, too, is sure to have an effect." -- Lambda Book Report
Chicagoblue said Butler and Agency. Butler is a difficult author to understand, particularly if you don't have a background in theories of performativity. I recommend reading JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words and Derrida's Limited, Inc either before or alongside this book. She also draws heavily from Foucault and Althusser.Excitable Speech is powerful for its account of how subjects are f. A Customer said When words injure, what do we do?. An insightful and thoroughly researched study of the social, political, and legal ramification of not only hate speech but discourse concerning the lingusitics of hate. Butler questions the contemporary practices of the adjudication of speech which seeks to define what is correct speech and what is proscribable under law. If words are legally indistinguishabl. A Customer said Butler's most "grounded" work. Butler does a good job grounding speech act theory in political and legal issues, particularly racist and homophobic "hate speech." She takes Derrida's theory of iterability and shows how repetition of discourse in new contexts can be a means of resistance. For Butler, this is very applied and I liked it much better than Gender trouble.
. Her previous books include Gender Trouble (Routledge, 1990), and Bodies That Matter (Routledge, 1993). Judith Butler is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley