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Excitable Speech:
A Politics of the Performative

by Judith Butler

ISBN 0415915880 / 9780415915885 / 0-415-91588-0
Publisher Routledge
Language English
Edition Softcover
List price $35.95
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With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, 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. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites. [via]