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Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Flexible Self

I like how you treat in this book. I wasn't so familiar with the idea of fantasy, which can be spelled with an F. The reason those pathological options are available is because it's actually an operation of the normal workings of the psyche. That gives us the tools to talk about things as disparate as gender identifications on one hand and group identifications that would then lead to ethical commitments in thisbook. Do you want to say a little more about sort of in general how this is what I felt like linked the two books?

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