Precarious Life : The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Author: Butler, Judith

Social & political philosophy

Published on 13 October 2020 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Radical Thinkers' series.

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.