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| Title | : | Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? |
| Author | : | Judith Butler |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 193 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2009 by Verso (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Theory. Politics. War |
Judith Butler
Hardcover | Pages: 193 pages Rating: 4.17 | 626 Users | 47 Reviews
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Frames of War begins where Butler’s Precarious Lives left off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives that we never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war, the lives of those wretched populations of the earth—the refugees; the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement—are always presented to us as already irretrievable and thereby already lost. We may shake our heads at their wretchedness but then we sacrifice them nonetheless, for they are already forgone.By analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left toward the precarity of those lives. Only by recognizing those lives as precarious lives—lives that are not yet lost but are ever fragile and in need of protection—might the Left stand in unity against the violence perpetrated through arbitrary state power.
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| Original Title: | Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? |
| ISBN: | 1844673332 (ISBN13: 9781844673339) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 626 Users | 47 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Butler somehow has the talent of initiating her discussion of certain aspects in a very confusing manner: essentially, she will start by talking about things that seem far-fetched and not connected to each other, as she does, for instance, when she talks about sexual politics, torture, and secular time (the third essay included in Frames of War). But then, as you keep on reading you actually realize that precisely those aspects which seemed forced and far-fetched in the beginning do make sense,Wicked smart.
Judith Butler's formulation of the conscious of war and conflict is brilliant
Dense, obviously, but piercingly intelligent and thought-provoking. I felt it started to unravel towards the end (or maybe it was my mind unravelling).
Is rocking my hybrid PhD theoretical framework.
Ugh. Tough one. Bigger picture: the book, from what I understand (as always, Butler lost me at times), calls, among other things, for a reconceptualization of the left united in opposing and resisting interventionist military action and violence. This is probably one of the more important philosophical projects of our time.Today's mainstream 'centre-left' of Democrats/Labour/Social Democracy by and large support 'humanitarian or human rights based military interventions' 'R2P' etc. There is
I took a bit of a break between two of the essays but this was a good book, just as good as Precarious Life and essentially the same topic.
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