Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative

Name: Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative
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ISBN: 9780415915885

ISBN-10: 0415915880

ISBN-13: 9780415915885

Edition: 1997

Authors: Judith Butler

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Excitable Speech examines the issue of the threatening action of words. Negotiating the work of Austin, Derrida and Bourdieu, Butler offers a theory of the political performativity of language and illuminates the efficacy of injurious language.

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: On Linguistic Vulnerability



Burning Acts, Injurious Speech



Sovereign Performatives



Contagious Word: Paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the Military



Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency


Notes


Index