Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence is a collection of essays by philosopher Judith Butler that examines vulnerability, grief, and the politics of violence and representation in the context of contemporary war and terrorism.

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instanceOf book
essay collection
academicDiscipline cultural studies
gender studies
philosophy
political science
addressesIssue civil liberties in wartime
dehumanization in war discourse
indefinite detention
media representation of violence
author Judith Butler
centralConcept differential allocation of vulnerability
ethical responsibility to the Other
grievability of lives
precarious life
countryOfOrigin United States
focusesOnEvent September 11 attacks
U.S. war on terror
focusesOnRegion United States foreign policy
genre critical theory
philosophy
political theory
hasPart “Explanation and Exoneration, or What We Can Hear”
“Indefinite Detention”
“Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity”
“Precarious Life”
“Violence, Mourning, Politics”
influencedBy Emmanuel Levinas
Hannah Arendt
Michel Foucault
language English
mainSubject ethics
frames of war
grief
human rights
mourning
politics of representation
precariousness of life
public mourning
state violence
terrorism
violence
vulnerability
war
war on terror
philosophicalApproach ethics of alterity
feminist theory
post-structuralism
publicationYear 2004
publisher Verso Books

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Judith Butler notableWork Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Judith Butler hasPublicationYearForWork Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004)
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Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? follows Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence hasPart “Violence, Mourning, Politics”
linked to: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence hasPart “Precarious Life: The Obligations of Proximity”
linked to: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence