Frames of War

When is Life Grievable?

Judith Butler

 

4.25 x 7 inches, 208 pp. 0

ISBN : 9788170463443

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In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the way in which recent US-led wars have enforced a distinction between those lives that are recognized as grieveable and those that are not. Butler shows how this situation, enacted through the media forms that have become part of the very waging war, has led to the first world destruction and abandonment of populations who do not conform to the prevailing Western norm of the human. Cast as threats to human life as we know it, such peoples are targeted for destruction in order to protect the lives of ‘the living’. JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley and author of numerous works including Giving an Account of Oneself, Subjects of Desire, Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech and Antigone´s Claim.

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Depts of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley and author of numerous works including Giving an Account of Oneself, Subjects of Desire, Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech and Antigone´s Claim. 

 

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