Agency and Nonviolence in Judith Butler - Discussing Adriana Zaharijević’s “Judith Butler and Politics”
Agency and Nonviolence in Judith Butler
Discussing Adriana Zaharijević’s “Judith Butler and Politics”
The seminar will discuss Butler’s key-concepts of performativity, agency, liveable life and non-violence, moving from the understanding proposed by Adriana Zaharijević in her work “Judith Butler and Politics” (2023, Edinburgh University Press). Through these four concepts, Zaharijević reads Butler’s philosophy as centred on bodies and performativity in social movements: a thought that delves deep into phenomena and attitudes such as war, antimilitarism, precarity, dispossession, assembly and nonviolence. The seminar will provide a fresh interpretation of Butler’s thought oriented by the idea of political living as the responsibility of a cohabitation with unchosen others, which appears particularly relevant in times of war and harsh repression.
Chair
- Daniela Chironi, Scuola Normale Superiore
Guests
- Adriana Zaharijević, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
- Massimo Palma, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa (Napoli)
- Margherita Pascucci, Independent researcher
Entrance will be allowed up to the maximum capacity of the room.