EVENTS
Judith Butler: Critique, Dissent, and Violence
26/05/2008 – 28/05/2008
Judith Butler
Critique, Dissent, and Violence
May 26-28. 18.30-21.00 h.
In this seminar Butler will propose to consider the possibilities of "critique" within contemporary global conditions, focusing on the ways that critique, as an academic practice, implies the possibility of political dissent. She will analyse the meaning of "critique" in light of Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and then to consider Hannah Arendt's views on dissent and civil disobedience. Both thinkers understand the political necessity of critique to emerge in the face of state violence. It will be considered how their theorizations might be translated into the present to formulate a public critique of global wars.
Biography
Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her most important works include: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (Routledge, 1997), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford University Press, 1997), Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990) and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth Century France (Columbia University Press, 1987).
Information and registration
Language of the seminar: English and Spanish. Simultaneous translation into Spanish
Capacity: 140 people
Free entry
To obtain the certificate is necessary to:
- Attend all three sessions of the seminar
- Fill in the registration form
- Make a bank transfer to CAJAMURCIA Bank, account number 2043 0090 32 0200550928, specifying the concept of the course/seminar, and SEND a copy of the payment receipt to the address below or pay directly at CENDEAC.
Fee: 30 € Professionals.15€ with proof of student, unemployed or pensioner status. Free showing the card "Amigo del Cendeac"
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