Judith butler antigone claim pdf

Kinship between life and death judith butler columbia university press 2000. Judith butlers study of antigone, over the course of these 3 lectures, yields important and timely insights about how we might understand kinship and love in todays society. Published in 2004 by routledge 270 madison avenue new york, ny 10016. Antigones claim 2000, judith butler explores the heteronormativity of kinship as structured by the state, and she links this language of kinship to the incest taboo. In this paper i will analyse two contemporary readings of sophocles antigone. Youll be choosing one of the claims that judith butler makes in her book, antigone s. A butlers objection, 25 b hyperbologic, 49 chapter 2 butlers theory of performativity, 80 preamble to chapter 3 butlers deviation in structuralism, 127 chapter 3 butlers antigone, a mimesis and sadomasochism. Butler antigones claim study guide, ancient gender. Antigones claim by judith butler overdrive rakuten. Judith butler is maxine elliot professor in the departments of rhetoric and comparative literature at the university of california, berkeley. Judith butler, american academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex were influential within francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. A conversation with judith butler pierpaolo antonello and roberto farneti this conversation was held in pordenone, italy, in september.

Key theories of judith butler literary theory and criticism. In judith butlers book antigones claim, promiscuous obedience is the proposed response to a world constituted by unwritten laws, aberrant trans missions. Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best. Judith pamela butler born february 24, 1956 is an american philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of thirdwave feminist, queer, and literary theory. Her analysis of hegel, levistrauss, and lacan is impressively rigorous.

In 1993, she began teaching at the university of california, berkeley, where she has served, beginning in 1998, as the maxine elliot professor in the department of comparative. Hegelian reflections in twentiethcentury france by judith butler columbia university press, 1999. Kinship between life and death the wellek library lectures new ed by judith butler isbn. Antigones singular position between life and death. Judith butler the celebrated author of gender trouble here redefines antigone. Butler explores the meaning of antigone, wondering what forms of kinship might have allowed her to live. Read antigones claim online, read in mobile or kindle. Judith butler, author of influential books such as gender trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity organized in active collaboration between judith butler and sara salih collects together writings that span butler. Moreover, antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what. She is the author of frames of war, precarious life, the psychic life of power, excitable speech, bodies. Bruno latour, scott lash, nikolas rose, judith butler and francoise verges. Butler uses the story of antigone to queer concepts such as. Kinship between life and death by butler, judith and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.

Sy het bekend geword weens haar twee boeke oor geslag gender trouble en bodies that matter en hoe ons idees en gevoelens oor liggame beheer word deur geslag as n. Pdf antigone s claim download full pdf book download. In her lectures on antigone, judith butler demonstrates the potential value of rereading ancient texts as part of the project of interrogating structures of kinship and gender. Download pdf antigones claim free online new books in. Introduction, b the claim and the law, 6 c confounding distinctions, 153. Judith butler is maxine elliot professor in the department of comparative literature and the program of critical theory at the university of california, berkeley. In antigones claim 2000, judith butler explores the heteronormativity of kinship as structured by the state, and she links this language of kinship to the incest taboo. List of books and articles about judith butler online. Judith butler is maxine elliot professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the university of california, berkeley. This article focuses on butlers politicization of kinship structures in her reading of the figure of antigone. Antigone s claim available for download and read online in other formats. The judith butler reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.

Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Butler argues that antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. The legacy of antigones defiance appeared to be lost in the contemporary efforts to recast. Moreover, antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life. The celebrated author of gender trouble here redefines antigones legacy, recovering her. In antigones claim 2000, judith butler explores the heteronormativity of kinship as structured by the state, and she links this language of kinship to the incest. Antigones claim and the politics of heteronormativity.