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Category Archive: Judith Butler

Judith Butler Quote: “Honestly, what can really be said…”

Honestly, what can really be said about ‘the Jewish people’ as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

October 14, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “I grew very skeptical of certain…”

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn’t trust anybody outside. You’d bring someone home, and the first question was, ‘Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?’

October 11, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “Sexual harassment law is very important….”

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

September 16, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “To say that gender is performative…”

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

August 23, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “When we say gender is performed…”

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

June 13, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “Life has to be protected. It…”

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

May 16, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that…”

Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.

May 4, 2021 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “Only if we accept the proposition…”

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

December 10, 2020 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “I don’t think we have to…”

I don’t think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

November 9, 2020 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Judith Butler Quote: “I think we won’t be able…”

I think we won’t be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don’t understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

October 12, 2020 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

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