Judith Butler beyond gender

Judith Butler beyond gender is philosophy in motion. There is nothing superfluous about this book. Nor is there any pretension of displaying erudition. What one will read here is political philosophy, which is philosophy itself, according to the author. She takes personal and collective mourning as an object of research and reflection. In this project, she joins Judith Butler, a philosopher who has been approaching mourning as a necessary and crucial issue for political criticism for quite some time now. We live in a time when mourning has a great meaning. The covid-19 pandemic has already caused the death of millions of people around the world, hundreds of thousands in Brazil. An immense collective loss. We are hopelessly constituted by our losses and absences. We are also constituted by our memories. Carla Rodrigues also makes us think about all these issues. She makes us reflect on inequality in death, on the lives that matter as well as those that are lost; on which lives are grievable. There is no denying this desolate scenario, even when some insist on it. We share this collective mourning. It is about claiming the right to experience it. "Finding ways to defend a more egalitarian society requires a public policy on mourning and memory," says Carla. When siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert from the Green Gables farm, on Prince Edward Island, Canada, decide to adopt a boy to help with the farm chores, they are not ready for the "mistake" that will change their lives forever: Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old red-haired girl ends up being mistakenly sent to them by the orphanage. Despite the unexpected event, the girl's expansive nature, her invariable positivity towards, her curiosity, her peculiar imagination, and her non-stop chatter quickly win the reluctant adoptive parents over. Anne's combative and questioning spirit soon attracts the interest of the local people–in addition to all sorts of troubles. Nevertheless, Anne is a Pollyanna-type girl, and her ability to always see the beautiful and positive side of things, and her love for life, nature, and books touch the hearts of everyone, and she ends up being "adopted" by the whole community. First published in 1908, this delightful tale illustrates fundamental core values such as ethics, solidarity, honesty, and the importance of work and friendship. It has had numerous editions and has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, being translated into more than 20 languages. Widely adapted into plays and movies, the book has, more recently, inspired the Netflix series Anne with an E. When siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert from the Green Gables farm, on Prince Edward Island, Canada, decide to adopt a boy to help with the farm chores, they are not ready for the mistake that will change their lives forever: Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old red-haired girl ends up being mistakenly sent to them by the orphanage. Despite the unexpected event, the girl's expansive nature, her invariable positivity towards, her curiosity, her peculiar imagination, and her non-stop chatter quickly win the reluctant adoptive parents over. Anne's combative and questioning spirit soon attracts the interest of the local people in addition to all sorts of troubles. Nevertheless, Anne is a Pollyanna-type girl, and her ability to always see the beautiful and positive side of things, and her love for life, nature, and books touch the hearts of everyone, and she ends up being adopted by the whole community. First published in 1908, this delightful tale illustrates fundamental core values such as ethics, solidarity, honesty, and the importance of work and friendship. It has had numerous editions and has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, being translated into more than 20 languages. Widely adapted into plays and movies, the book has, more recently, inspired the Netflix series Anne with an E Um advogado nova-iorquino de meados do século XIX resolve contratar um novo copista. Atendendo ao anúncio do advogado, apresenta-se à porta de seu escritório um jovem que ele caracteriza como uma figura palidamente asseada, lastimosamente respeitável, incuravelmente desolada. Era Bartleby. No começo, o novo copista trabalhava fazendo o que se esperava dele: cópias. Mas, depois, bem, depois, não vamos estragar a história. Bartleby, o escrevente_ é um conto de Herman Melville (1819-1891), o autor de _Moby Dick, publicado pela primeira vez em 1853. O personagem central é tão marcante e o conto tem uma força tal que Bartleby tem fascinado leitores e críticos desde sua primeira publicação. Foi, contemporaneamente, teorizado por filósofos tão ilustres quanto Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, e Giorgio Agamben (v. Bartleby, ou da contingência, Autêntica, 2015). A presente edição apresenta o conto numa nova tradução ao lado do original em inglês Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Epigraph Dedication Foreword PART ONE: Why Judith Butler? A Brief Introduction to the Author Butler Beyond Gender Trouble PART TWO: Mouring and Dispossession Toward a Political Theory of Mourning Melancholias Interdependence and Morality: A Debate With and Against Butler De-democratizations PART THREE: Feminist Encounters The Unhappy Body Being and Becoming: Butler as a Reader of Beauvoir Feminisms and their Subjects From the Beginning to the Ends of Mourning Bibliography Notes