Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler

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webb_beb's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

I don’t know quite what possessed me to pick up another book by Butler after she was my main antagonist in many a gender studies course. However, much of this book was informative and thoughtful, and more often than I expected Butler tied her philosophy back in to real world examples of Palestine, police violence, migration and refugees, etc. in ways that helped me comprehend the material. I feel that I learned a lot about the intellectual history of non-violence and some of the pieces around this idea, like grieveability and interdependence. However, there were many parts that were incredibly long winded and dense. The final chapter before the post-script was on Freud and I can say that it was completely undecipherable to me. Perhaps if you were familiar with Freud’s work on the death drive it would have been understandable but  for me it was so bad I almost didn’t finish the book.  

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Genocide, and Police brutality