作者：JudithButler
出版社：ColumbiaUniversityPress
副标题：APandemicPhenomenology
出版年：2022-11
页数：160
定价：£14.99
ISBN：9780231208291
内容简介
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The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and about, this common bind?
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—have challenged us to reconsider the sense of the world that such disasters bring about. Drawing on the work of Max Scheler, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and critical feminist phenomenology, Butler illuminates the conditions in which we seek to make sense of our disorientation, precarity, and social bonds. What World Is This? offers a new account of interdependency in which touching and breathing, capacities that amid a viral outbreak can threaten life itself, challenge the boundaries of the body and selfhood. Criticizing notions of unlimited personal liberty and the killing forces of racism, sexism, and classism, this book suggests that the pandemic illuminates the potential of shared vulnerabilities as well as the injustice of pervasive inequalities.
Exposing and opposing forms of injustice that deny the essential interrelationship of living creatures, Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.
作者简介
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Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of several books, most recently The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020). Butler’s previous Columbia University Press books include Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) and Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000).
目录
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Senses of the World: Scheler and Merleau-Ponty
2. Powers in the Pandemic: Reflections on Restricted Life
3. Intertwining as Ethics and Politics
4. Grievability for the Living
Postscript: Transformations
Notes
Index
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挺妙的，但我缺乏足够的现象学知识。。
哀悼、人的关联性和清晰的语言与ta 2000s后的写作一脉相承，作为面向公众的读物其实不错，但过于US中心确实很无奈。然后为了传达讯息在现象学各派中间挑挑拣拣，虽然可以理解但未免令人烦躁，甚至席勒/海德格尔和梅洛-庞蒂在主体与世界方面的分歧就提了一下…
The normative principles for this movement include, as I said, interdependency, social solidarity, and revolutionary critique. They are seeking to provide the conditions for life, for living on, for l…
好奇这本假设的读者是什么群体。短小到可以在一趟飞机上读完的体量看似面向普罗大众，全篇也以“我们”为主语，但这个此前并不把人和人之间的interdependence看作常态的“我们”到底是谁？这种浮在美国主要议题层面的讨论其实更适合简短的manifesto，毕竟还是有一些适合用自己的经历来进一步articulate的金句：“And if we hate the virus for the vulne…
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