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Excitable Speech

Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative

Judith Butler, Professor Judith Butler, KIRT CHARLES BUTLER
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Excitable Speech examines the issue of the threatening action of words. Negotiating the work of Austin, Derrida and Bourdieu, Butler offers a theory of the political performativity of language and illuminates the efficacy of injurious language.
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