Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

Judith Butler

224 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most important books. Examining in turn debates abo...

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