
Judith Butler on US and world politics, art, feminism, gender-theory, non-violence, and many other things
Crisis and Critique
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The Role of the Humanities in Higher Education
The next issue we wanted to raise and um uh talk about with you is directly connected because it concerns somehow the question of identity and solidarity or maybe one could say identity and universalizability. I mean you are clearly someone who Foucault would have described as a creator invented an adventure of a new discursive regime so that distinguishes you on three levels at least. How would you describe the the the status of higher education today? We think it's important to raise it especially because it's not easy to make a career in the humanities for many many scholars out there PhD students right?, he says.
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