Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

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Routledge, Oct 18, 2013 - Philosophy - 200 pages
With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.

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Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction On Linguistic Vulnerability
1 Burning Acts Injurious Speech
2 Sovereign Performatives
Paranoia and Homosexuality in the Military
4 Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency
Notes
Index
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Judith Butler is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Gender Trouble (Routledge, 1990), and Bodies That Matter (Routledge, 1993).

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