Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters

1. Introduction "Terrell Carver & Samuel A. Chambers" Part 1: Phenomenology & Epistemology 2. Butler's Phenomenological Existentialism "Diana Coole" 3. Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" and the Limits of Epistemology "Linda M.G. Zerilli" Part 2: Feminism & Philosophy 4. 'French Theory' goes to France: "Trouble dans le Genre" and 'Materialist' Feminism -- A Conversation Manque "Lisa Jane Disch" 5. "Acclaim for Antigone's Claim" Reclaimed (or, Steiner "contra" Butler) "John E. Seery" Part 3: Capitalism & Culture 6. Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault: Butler and Fraser on Capitalism and the Regulation of Sexuality "Anna Marie Smith" 7. Towards a Cultural Politics of Vulnerability: Precarious Lives and Ungrievable Deaths "Moya Lloyd" Part 4: Ethics & Sovereignty 8. Change of Address: Butler's Ethics at Sovereignty's Deadlock "Jodi Dean" 9. Sovereignty and Suffering: Towards an Ethics of Grief in a Post-9/11 World "David S. Gutterman & Sara L. Rushing" Part 5: Law & Rights 10. Butler and Life: Law, Sovereignty, Power "Elena Loizidou" 11. Rights and the Politics of Performativity "Karen Zivi" Part 6: Humanity & Vulnerability 12. This Species Which Is Not One: Identity Practices in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Kathy E. Ferguson" 13. Vulnerability, Vengeance, and Community: Butler's Political Thought and Eastwood's "Mystic River Robert E. Watkins" 14. Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib "Timothy Kaufman-Osborn"