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Chapters: New Historians, Post-Zionists, Judith Butler, Benny Morris, Hillel Kook, Ilan Pappé, Gideon Levy, Shlomo Sand, Tanya Reinhart, Amira Hass, Avi Shlaim, Tom Segev, Danny Rubinstein, Simha Flapan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Judith Butler (born 24 February 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is currently the Maxine Elliott professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, for a dissertation subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s she held several teaching/research appointments, and was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism. Her research ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war. Her most recent work focuses on Jewish philosophy, exploring pre- and post-Zionist criticisms of state violence. Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a family of Hungarian and Russian ancestry. Her mother was raised in Orthodox Judaism, later turning to Conservative Judaism, and finally to Reform Judaism; Butler's father belonged to a Reform Synagogue since his childhood. As a child and teenager, she attended both Hebrew school and special classes on Jewish ethics where she received her "first training in philosophy." Butler stated in a 2010 interview with Haaretz that she began the ethics classes at the age of 14 and t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=148809 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Harlan Ellison, Perry Satullo, Henry Mancini, Judith Butler, Camille Benjamin, Burgess Meredith, Wes Craven, William H. Daniels, Tracy Chapman, Hal Holbrook, Nick Nemeth, John Howard, Joel Grey, Albert Ayler, Halle Berry, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Avery Hopwood, Jeane Manson, Mark Stevens, Dorothy Dandridge, Dennis Kucinich, Carol Kane, Janis Carter, Ruby Dee, Fred Neil, Gilby Clarke, Bill Cobbs, Harvey Cushing, Jerry Siegel, Ryan Feierabend, Steven Adler, James Lovell, Cheetah Chrome, Eric Singer, Johnny Hazzard, Clark Graebner, Mary Carey, Alan Ruck, Nancy Spero, Carl E. Walz, Bobby Womack, Donna Shalala, Shawna Lenee, Edward Hennig, George David Low, Joey Maxim, Scott Walker, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Ernest Tidyman, Donald A. Thomas, Tom Van Flandern, Kenneth D. Cameron, Mary Weber, Khashyar Darvich, Egmont Arens, Roland West, Jason Popson, Dan Taylor, Catalina Cruz, Fletcher Allen, Wish Bone, Charles Geschke, James Eells. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Perry Satullo (né le 25 octobre 1966 à Cleveland), plus connu sous le nom de Perry Saturn, est un catcheur américain semi retraité. Pendant sa carrière, il a travaillé à la Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, et la World Wrestling Federation. Satullo s'est engagé dans la United States Army à l'âge de dix-sept ans pour devenir un Army Airborne Ranger avant de finalement embarquer dans une carrière dans le catch. Satullo commençait à s'entraîner dans l'école de Killer Kowalski à Malden, Massachusetts vers 1988, prenant le pseudonyme de ring Saturn du dieu Romain de même nom. Il débutait le 27 octobre 1990 à Waltham, Massachusetts, catchant pour la United States Wrestling Federation, où il dét...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Judith Butler, Hillel Kook, Gideon Levy, Shlomo Sand, Tanya Reinhart, Amira Hass, Tom Segev, Danny Rubinstein. Excerpt:Amira Hass Amira Hass (Hebrew : ; born July 28, 1956) is a prominent left-wing Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz . She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza , where she has also lived for a number of years. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ), Hass was born in Jerusalem , and was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where she studied the history of Nazism and the European Left's relation to the Holocaust . Early in her career, she traveled widely and worked in several different jobs. Frustrated by the events of the First Intifada , she began her journalistic career in 1989 as a staff editor for Ha'aretz and started to report from the Palestinian Territories in 1991. As of 2003, she is the only Jewish Israeli journalist who has lived full-time among the Palestinians, in Gaza from 1993 and in Ramallah from 1997. Hass was the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute in 2000, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2003, the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund in 2004 and Hrant Dink Memorial Award in 2009 . Her reporting is generally sympathetic to the Palestinian point of view and critical of Israeli government policy towards the Palestinians. During the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada , however, Hass published several highly critical articles about the chaos and disorder caused by militias associated with the Fatah party of Yasser Arafat and the bloody war between Palestinian factions in ... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Hypatie, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Catherine Kintzler, Monique Canto-Sperber, Élisabeth Badinter, Ágnes Heller, Sarah Kofman, Isabelle Stengers, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Taraneh Javanbakht, Sandra Laugier, Élisabeth de Fontenay, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Clémence Royer, Marguerite Léna, Harriet Taylor Mill, Angèle Kremer-Marietti, Seyla Benhabib, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Geneviève Fraisse, Sylviane Agacinski, Élisabeth de Bohême, Princesse Palatine, Catherine Malabou, Blandine Kriegel, Luce Irigaray, Nancy Fraser, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Jeanne Hersch, Christiane Chauviré, Isabelle Garo, Rachida Triki, Catherine Perret, Monique Dixsaut, Suzanne Bachelard, Paola Marrati, Claude Imbert, Ruth Barcan Marcus, María Zambrano, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Evelyne Grossman, Mary Hesse, Ruth Millikan, Mélika Ouelbani, Yvonne Picard, Monique Castillo, Marlène Zarader, Marly Bulcão, Séverine Auffret, Patricia Churchland, Véronique le Ru, Beatriz Preciado, Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, Jacqueline Russ, Nancy Cartwright, Carolyn Merchant, Magdalena Środa, Olgaria Matos, Margaret Gilbert, Manuela de Barros, Thémista. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Simone Adolphine Weil est une philosophe française, née à Paris le 3 février 1909 et morte à Ashford le 24 août 1943. Elle est la sœur du mathématicien André Weil. Simone Weil est née en 1909 dans une famille d'origine juive, mais agnostique. Elle a trois ans de moins que son frère André. En 1924-1925, elle suit les cours du philosophe René Le Senne au lycée Victor-Duruy, à Paris, et obtient, au mois de juin 1925, le baccalauréat de philosophie (selon la dénomination en vigueur à cette époque-là). Elle a alors seize ans. En o...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Judith Butler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 425. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 142 Local Government Areas (including Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands). Their mandate and operations are governed by the Local Government Act 1995. There are three classifications of local government in Western Australia: Historically, two types of local government existed - municipalities, which represented towns or condensed urban areas, and road boards, which represented all other regions. The Perth Road Board, for instance, was the precursor to the City of Stirling. Only a few cities - Perth, Fremantle, Subiaco, South Perth and Nedlands - existed prior to 1961. On 1 July 1961, all road boards became shires, and all municipalities became towns.. Note: The Shires of Broomehill and Tambellup merged to form the Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup on May 27, 2008. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140290 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Judith P. Butler, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2326 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Read more

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Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, salt marshes were once considered unproductive wastelands. Salt Marshes, with an emphasis coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions and the San Francisco Bay area, offers readers a wealth of essential information about a variety of flora and fauna, marshes' ecological importance, consequences of human neglect and overdevelopment, and insight into how these wetlands recover. ... Read more

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Four decades ago, John and Mildred Teal published their seminal study of tidal wetlands, Life and Death of the Salt Marsh (1969). They noted: "Marshes are generally considered useless land that must be made useful as quickly as possible. 'Useful,' of course, means destruction of the marsh in most cases and conversion of the area to ground on which people can stand, and water on which they can float boats." Weis and Butler's book describes the unfortunate results of this traditional view.It also discusses the impact of the recent consensus that salt marshes (the authors' "favorite places for many years") are valuable habitats, worth preserving and restoring.
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In chess, when a pawn reaches the eighth square on the far side of the board, the player can swap it for a piece from his opponent's set. So the pawn--a lowly foot soldier--can transform into a queen, the least powerful figure can transform into the epitome of power, and a man can become a woman--just like that. Issues of sexuality are playing out around us all the time, quaking and transmuting under the surface of every family exchange and embedded in all of our popular media images. This scholarly and yet still erotic compendium examines, through works by more than 70 artists, historical and social developments in human sexuality, taking on all facets of drag, gender, queerness and transsexuality. Artists include Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tracey Moffatt, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg and Cindy Sherman. ... Read more

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From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction to its perceived suppression by ethical and political imperatives. However, beauty is just one aspect of the aesthetic. In recent years, increasing attention has been given to the ways in which aesthetics and ethics are intertwined. In a series of paired essays and responses, a group of the English-speaking world's most distinguished thinkers consider this 'new' aesthetics, demonstrating its cross-disciplinary relevance in terms accessible to a non-specialist readership. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Shakespeare Studies, published by Associated University Presses on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3283 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples.(Book Review)
Author: Judith Butler
Publication: Shakespeare Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Page: 234(10)

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La nueva obra de Judith Butler explora la manera en que el liderazgo belico de EEUU ha impuesto una distincion entre aquellas vidas que merecen ser lloradas y aquellas que no. Butler muestra que esta distincion presentada a traves de formas de comunicacion que se han convertido en parte de la guerra misma ha conducido al primer mundo a la destruccion y abandono de poblaciones que no se ajustan a la norma occidental imperante de lo humano. Judith Butler es una de las autoras de referencia del fondo de Paidos y una figura destacada de la intelectualidad internacional. Esta muy vinculada a los movimientos de reconocimiento de los derechos de las diferentes identidades sexuales. Una gran cantidad de personalidades internacionales de las ciencias sociales ya han manifestado su posicion ante el conflicto en Oriente Medio. Judith Butler se suma con Marcos de guerra a los intelectuales que han dicho su palabra. En Marcos de guerra Butler realiza una lectura critica de la historia reciente: la actuacion belica de EEUU en todo el planeta la guerra de Irak Guantanamo o los fenomenos de violencia racista vinculados a la inmigracion en Europa. ... Read more

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György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought.Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text.

For this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which Lukács wrote at the time ofSoul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukács's key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukácsian system within his writing and other fields. These essays explore problems of alienation and isolation and the curative quality of aesthetic form, which communicates both individuality and a shared human condition. They investigate the elements that give rise to form, the history that form implies, and the historicity that form embodies. Taken together, they showcase the breakdown, in modern times, of an objective aesthetics, and the rise of a new art born from lived experience.

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En un mundo en constante movimiento marcado por las migraciones que signan los cambios de identidades y de lealtades el estado vino a ocupar un lugar mas provisional mas difuso. Sus fronteras han adquirido otra plasticidad se han vuelto mas fluidas en tanto la mezcla de sus habitantes favorece una aparente pluralidad. Se concibe asi una nueva idea para la vieja formula del estado-nacion. En esta obra que se presenta bajo su original formato coloquial dos de las mas renombradas intelectuales contemporaneas Judith Butler y Gayatri Spivak debaten en torno a la forma en que la globalizacion ha discurrido sobre ciertas transformaciones culturales al punto que simbolos inmanentes como los himnos nacionales y las fronteras politicas aparecen hoy como gestos anacronicos. El resultado es una conversacion animada polemica erudita y no exenta de humor que recorre en profundidad los conceptos fundamentales de esta nueva realidad no solo a partir de las ideas propias sino tambien de las de otros filosofos clave que han teorizado sobre el concepto de estado-nacion. ... Read more

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This collection of poems by poet/writer Judith L. Butler were compiled to honor the strong Women of the West who led remarkable lives in the rough and ready days of the emerging western territory. ... Read more

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SPECTACULAR OPTICAL is a book published by TRANS>arts.cultures.media to accompany the exhibition bt the same name heldat Thread Waxing Space. The book takes as a point of departure thecultural fascination with violence, atrocity, mutation and the waysthat they are depicted (some would say gentrified) asentertainment. The essays examine the ways in which opticality hasbecome so spectacular, how this bedazzlement with entertainment isengineered in the larger sphere of cultural production. From feminismto fetishism, from simulation to stimulation, the book takes as anexample David Cronenberg's work which deals with corporeality,aggravated biology, technology, spectacle, media, and violence. ... Read more