Crisis and Critique Judith Butler on US and world politics, art, feminism, gender-theory, non-violence, and many other things
Mar 4, 2023
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Butler's Marxism Journey
- Judith Butler's Marxism engagement started in adolescence through self-study and influenced by socialist feminism.
- Her approach integrates economic anthropology and critiques strict divides between culture and economics.
Psychoanalysis and Social Pain
- Butler finds psychoanalysis useful for understanding social psychic suffering but rejects it as a total framework.
- She explores how societal denial and lack of public mourning exacerbate psychic and social pain.
Antigone and Kinship Norms
- Butler views Antigone's choice as a heroic individuality rejecting solidarity but lacking a strategy to overcome authoritarian power.
- She highlights kinship's complexity intertwined with law and critiques orthodox psychoanalysis on family models.