ENGLISH

Excitable speech: a politics of the performative

By Judith Butler

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1997
ISBN
0415915880, 9780415915885
LCC
P95.54 .B88 1997
Google Books ID
GNh1N_HQ8MwC
Open Library ID
OL21200483M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12430535 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
200\197
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.

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