For a long time now I have been interested in what I see to be a particular tension in the
work of Judith Butler. This is the tension between her explicit commitment to producing …

Despite the continual displacement of nearly every established conception of the human, the
figure of the human remains a powerful idea for political and ethical theorising. In the era of …

The question of the possibility of an anti-foundationalist approach to ethics has come to the
forefront in recent discussions in the humanities. Two questions dominate these discussions …

In an essay from 2000, Judith Butler confesses her worry that the 'return to ethics has
constituted an escape from politics'(15). In a published conversation with the political theorist …

I would not have pressed the point. One among the very many requests sent in her direction–
for lectures, manuscripts, articles, comments, responses, endorsements and the like–mine …

This article proposes that Butler's Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
provides a valuable contribution to the sociology of cosmopolitanism on the basis of a …

Beginning with her earliest formulations of performativity and up through her more recent
theory of precarity, Judith Butler offers a sustained reflection on the constitution, production …

Butler and Ethics Page 1 Butler and Ethics Edited by Moya Lloyd CRITICAL
CONNECTIONS Page 2 Page 3 Butler and Ethics Page 4 Critical Connections A series of …

I want to argue that if we are to make broader social and political claims about rights of
protection and entitlement to persistence and flourishing, we will have to be supported by a …

After Butler, identities and belongings, whether gendered or of any other hue, can never be
securely pinned down. They must be seen as fundamentally contingent, stabilized only …