Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

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 under…

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