Dispossession : The Performative in the Political, Paperback by Butler, Judit...

Dispossession : The Performative in the Political, Paperback by Butler, Judith; Athanasiou, Athena, ISBN 0745653812, ISBN-13 9780745653815, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThis book reproduces a dialogue between feminist scholars Athanasiou (Panteion U. of Social and Political Sciences, Greece) and Butler (U. of California at Berkeley, US) on the issue of "how to become dispossesed of the sovereign self and enter into forms of collectivity that oppose forms of dispossession that systematically jettison populations from modes of collective belonging and justice." The discussion is wide ranging, encompassing such topics as the philosophical work of Iragaray, Heidegger's critique of technology, Foucault's notion of biopolitics, post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, speech act theory, and queer activism, but is centrally concerned with the rejection (or "dispossession") of the unitary self as a style of masculinism that effaces sexual difference and enacts mastery of the domain of life. Distributed in the US by Wiley. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()