Judith Butler

Judith Butler (b. February 24 1956) is a prominent post-structuralist philosopher and has made major contributions to feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She also has a professorial appointment at the European Graduate School.

Slavoj Žižek

Further information about Judith Butler can be found in the following reference(s):

• Žižek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London: Verso, 1999. p. 3

on decision 19

Hegel and Foucault 253

melancholy mechanism and homosexuality 269-73, 279

passionate attachments 265-9, 282, 288-9

queer struggle 225

resistance 260-64

sexual difference 274-5

subjectivity and sexuality 257-9

• Žižek, Slavoj. Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. p. 265 n. 9
• Žižek, Slavoj. Conversations. pp. 24, 46, 75
• Žižek, Slavoj. The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For. London and New York: Verso, 2000. p. 94, 105