New Scenes of Vulnerability, Agency and Plurality

The article presents the transcript of an interview with the feminist theorist Judith Butler. Butler makes connections between the various philosophies she engages, including the works of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Jean Laplanche. Butler is particularly interested in Foucault&#...

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Published in:Theory, culture & society culture & society, 2010-01, Vol.27 (1), p.130-152
Main Author: Bell, Vikki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agency and Structure
Feminist Theory
Infants
Israel
Psychoanalysis
Socialization
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Summary:The article presents the transcript of an interview with the feminist theorist Judith Butler. Butler makes connections between the various philosophies she engages, including the works of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Jean Laplanche. Butler is particularly interested in Foucault's engagement with psychoanalysis and Laplanche's writing on the necessity of unwanted touch to the socialization of infants. Butler discusses Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem," and particularly the differences in how Eichmann and Heidegger reacted to their involvement in the German National Socialist public space. Butler also discusses her vision of Israel. She articulates the present political configurations to which the public should attend. Butler concludes by discussing the institutional and extrapersonal modes of agency in society. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
ISSN:0263-2764
DOI:10.1177/0263276409350371