Excitable Speech: A Politics of the PerformativeWith the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender in two earlier bestselling Routledge books, Gender Trouble, and Bodies That Matter, philosopher Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | |
1 Burning Acts Injurious Speech 43 | |
2 Sovereign Performatives 71 | |
Paranoia | |
Notes 165 | |
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