- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Aug 3 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415956536
- ISBN-13: 978-0415956536
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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How has Judith Butler’s writing contributed to thought in the Social Sciences and the Humanities? The participants in this project draw on various aspects of Butler’s conceptual work and they question how it has opened up the possibilities of thought in areas of study as diverse as theatre studies, education and narrative therapy.
In a format that demands careful listening and response, the scholars in this book interact with Butler, her writing, and each other. Within this dynamic space they take up Butler’s body of work and carry it in new and exciting directions. Their conversations and writing are, in turn, funny, exciting, surprising and moving.
About the Author
Bronwyn Davies is Professor of Education at the University of Western Sydney. Her current work involves a critique of neoliberalism as it impacts on subjectivities at work. She is also researching pedagogies of place and transgressive research methodologies. Her most recent book with Susanne Gannon, Doing Collective Biography, is published by Open University Press (2006).
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Judith Butler in Conversation, July 9 2008
By M. Bernoth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life (Paperback)
Judith Butler in Conversation is a valuable resource for academics, students and researchers in narrative therapies, psychology, cultural studies, theatre, gender, politics, feminism, education and communication. The incredible intellect of Judith Butler is initially made accessible through conversations with Bronyn Davies, a post structural feminist researcher and academic at the University of Western Sydney. Davies interviews Butler about aspects of her thinking and writing and asks salient questions that translate Butler's work just as writers have translated Foucault's work. Subsequent to Davies conversation, various other academics relate Butler's thoughts to their own spheres of research and thinking. These cover discourse, gender emergence, refugees, education and the experience of childhood in a pluralistic society. There are multiple conversations within this text. The writers are not only conversing with Butler but also with each other. Each chapter has a response by other academics. The greatest achievement of this text is that it makes Butler's intellect accessible to a whole new audience. It relates her work to the practical and the every day giving the reader an opportunity to open up to a new paradigm, a different way of perceiving the world. Davies and the other contributers to the text are to be congratulated on such a valuable contribution to academic texts.
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Butler speaks, Feb 29 2008
By Teresa Levy "tlevy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life (Paperback)
Easy to Read, Butler is always thorough and insightful. This book is not so much an introduction but an alive performance or thinking in action. The relation between theory and concrete problems males it a pleasure to read. It is philosophy today, as I see it
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