Some lives are grievable, and others are not; the differential allocation of grievability that decides what kind of subject is and must be grieved, and which ...

Ebook ... Responding to the US's perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity. In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith ...

One of Butler's most accessible books, this is a phenomenally interesting and beautifully written investigation into human vulnerability and loss. Butler uses ...

An excellent text on a dictum of the value of human life and humanity that we take for granted - as lay persons and social scientists. Not everybody's life is ' ...

Precarious Life, written just after the events of 9/11 in response to trauma, heightened vulnerability, fear, aggression, and our subsequent engagement in ...

"Precarious Life" approaches the question of a non-violent ethics, one that is based upon an understanding of how easily human life is annulled. Emmanuel ...

Butler considers the means by which some lives become grief-worthy, while others are perceived as undeserving of grief or even incomprehensible as lives. She ...

Seeking to understand why aggression so often follows the experience of loss, Butler asks, “what might be made of grief besides a cry for war?”.

The book's final essay, “Precarious Life,” shares many similar themes with. “Violence, Mourning, Politics.” Here, Butler explores the themes of psychic vulner-.