Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence - Judith Butler

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War , Precarious Life , The Psychic Life of Power , Excitable Speech , Bodies that Matter , Gender Trouble , and with Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality .