A powerful quote by Judith Butler reveals how reading immerses us in new worlds. We lose ourselves in books, only to return ...

"Unverlöschlicher Glanz," says Judith Butler, looking at me. "How would you translate this phrase into English?" We are sitting in a seminar room in Berkeley, the Californian sun bathing the campus in ...

When I first heard that McGill University, my university, was awarding Professor Judith Butler an honorary doctorate, I winced, quietly. Butler is a caustic critic of Israel, with a blind spot for ...

One of the jobs of philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it's unlikely they'll be realised. Judith Butler, Maxine Eliot Professor in ...

A new book from one of the world’s leading philosophers brims with ideas about gender, collective action and insecurity. It is impossible to over-estimate the exceptional contribution to political ...

Renowned queer feminist theorist Judith Butler has issued a warning to Americans outraged by Donald Trump to stop missing the forest for the trees. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Butler explained that ...

Just a few weeks before the publication of this new book from the doyenne of gender theory, Judith Butler, two teenagers – Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe – were each sentenced to more than 20 ...