An Interview on Feminist Ethics and Theory with Judith Butler

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-468
Author(s):  
Nayereh Tohidi
Author(s):  
Adriana Cavarero ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Bonnie Honig

This volume forms a tribute to Adriana Cavarero’s extraordinary contribution to feminist philosophy. Responding to Cavarero’s provocative style the text presents an engagement between Cavarero, Judith Butler, Bonnie Honig, and seven other interlocutors, engaging with the themes of horrorism, sex, maternity, inclination, and the body to develop her feminist ethics of nonviolence. Presented as a musical arrangement that demonstrates Cavarero’s theory of pluriphony, this volume captures the collaborative yet diverse mood of much contemporary feminism, and particularly the inspirational, scholarly friendship between Butler, Honig, and Cavarero.


Author(s):  
J. F. Bernard

What’s so funny about melancholy? Iconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy showcases an extraordinary reliance on melancholy that ultimately reminds us of the porous demarcation between laughter and sorrow. This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare’s comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and, conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy. In fashioning his own comic interpretation of the humour, Shakespeare distils an impressive array of philosophical discourses on the matter, from Aristotle to Robert Burton, and as a result, transforms the theoretical afterlife of both notions. The book suggests that the deceptively potent sorrow at the core of plays such as The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, or The Winter’s Tale influences modern accounts of melancholia elaborated by Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, and others. What’s so funny about melancholy in Shakespearean comedy? It might just be its reminder that, behind roaring laughter, one inevitably finds the subtle pangs of melancholy.


2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Runions

In her recent book Precarious Life, Judith Butler points out that not more than ten days after 9/11, on 20 September 2001, George W. Bush urged the American people to put aside their grief; she suggests that such a refusal to mourn leads to a kind of national melancholia. Using psychoanalytic theory on melancholia, this article diagnoses causes and effects of such national melancholia. Further, it considers how a refusal to mourn in prophetic and apocalyptic texts and their interpretations operates within mainstream US American politics like the encrypted loss of the melancholic, thus creating the narcissism, guilt, and aggression that sustain the pervasive disavowal of loss in the contemporary moment. This article explore the ways in which the texts of Ezekiel, Micah, Revelation, and their interpreters exhibit the guilt and aggression of melancholia, in describing Israel as an unfaithful and wicked woman whose pain should not be mourned. These melancholic patterns are inherited by both by contemporary apocalyptic discourses and by the discourse of what Robert Bellah calls ‘American civil religion’, in which the US is the new Christian Israel; thus they help to position the public to accept and perpetuate the violence of war, and not to mourn it.


Hypatia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawne McCance
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Riedl
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2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (34) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Johana Cabral ◽  
Ismael Francisco de Souza
Keyword(s):  

<p>O presente artigo realiza um estudo sobre a reprodução da discriminação de gênero na atividade judicial, considerando os julgados que envolvem crianças e adolescentes vítimas de crimes de natureza sexual. Tem por objetivos verificar a influência da cultura machista e sexista na prática judiciária brasileira, a partir da análise das decisões jurisprudenciais do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Santa Catarina, nos crimes de natureza sexual cometidos contra menores de 14 anos, que consiste no crime de estupro de vulnerável, previsto no artigo 217-A do Código Penal. Para tanto, será inicialmente apresentado o paradigma da proteção integral, orientador do Direito da Criança e do Adolescente. Em seguida, tratar-se-á sobre o ser mulher e o ser criança em uma sociedade marcada pelo patriarcado e pela violação aos direitos das mulheres, considerando-se as contribuições dos estudos de gênero, especialmente os ensinos de Judith Butler e de Joan Scott. No terceiro momento, será realizada a análise das decisões jurisprudenciais do Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina, para verificar se há a produção e reprodução da discriminação de gênero nos julgados do tribunal catarinense. O método de procedimento foi o monográfico e o de abordagem, o dialético, utilizando-se, para tanto, da pesquisa bibliográfica e jurisprudencial.</p>


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