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Judith Butler

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Judith Butler (1956-) is an American political philosopher. The main thread in Butler’s works is to explore the relation between desire and recognition and the constitution of the human subject. For Butler, recognition always contains an aspect of misrecognition. Recognition necessarily excludes something important. Thus, it is a never-ending process. Butler’s ideas have proved influential in feminism, gender studies and queer studies.

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  1. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finnland

    Sari Roman-Lagerspetz

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  1. Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Münster Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

    Ludwig Siep

  2. School of Humanities & Languages, The University of New South Wales School of Humanities & Languages, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Heikki Ikaheimo

  3. Philosophisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

    Michael Quante

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Roman-Lagerspetz, S. (2020). Judith Butler. In: Siep, L., Ikaheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_81-1

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