Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

by Judith Butler

Book Overview

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week

Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how.

Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity--the destruction of the conditions of livability--has been a galvanizing force and theme in today's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067498398X
• ISBN13: 9780674983984
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"