Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist and feminist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics. They are currently a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler received their Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, for a dissertation subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s they held several teaching and research appointments, and were involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism. Their research ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, and mourning and war. Their most recent work focuses on Jewish philosophy and exploring pre- and post-Zionist criticisms of state violence.
Books
Giving an Account of Oneself
2003
¿Reconocimiento o redistribución? Un debate entre marxismo y feminismo
2017
Parting Ways
Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
2012
Undoing Gender
2004
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
2000
Sin miedo
formas de resistencia a la violencia de hoy
2020
Antigone's Claim
Kinship Between Life and Death
2000
The Question of Gender
Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism
2011
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
2011
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
2015
Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging
2007
Precarious Life
The Powers of Mourning and Violence
2004
Bodies That Matter
On the Discursive Limits of Sex
1993
Dispossession
The Performative in the Political
2013
Vulnerability in Resistance
2016
Subjects of Desire
Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
1987
Senses of the Subject
2015
Frames of War
When is Life Grievable?
2009
Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life
2012
The Psychic Life of Power
Theories in Subjection
1997
Sopa de Wuhan
2020
The Judith Butler Reader
2003
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
1989
What World Is This?
A Pandemic Phenomenology
2022
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
1988
Šta je kritika?
2018
Feminists Theorize the Political
1992
The Force of Nonviolence
An Ethico-Political Bind
2020
Excitable Speech
A Politics of the Performative
1997
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
2024
