"Critique, Responsibility, and Performative Rights"

Judith Butler, Rhetoric/Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.  

Professor Butler received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and is the author of numerous works that include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (Routledge, 1997), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000), and Hegemony, Contingency, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek, Verso Press, 2000).  In 2004, she published a collection of writings on war's impact on language and thought entitled Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning with Verso Press.  That same year, The Judith Butler Reader appeared (edited by Sara Salih, Blackwell Publishers).  Among Professor Butler's most recent books is Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (co-authored with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Seagull Books, 2007). She continues to write on cultural and literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and sexual politics. 

Judith Butler’s translated works in Japanese 

『ジェンダー・トラブル―フェミニズムとアイデンティティの攪乱』竹村和子訳（青土社, 1999年）Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, (Routledge, 1990) 

『触発する言葉―言語・権力・行為体』（岩波書店, 2004年）竹村和子訳Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, (Routledge, 1997) 

『アンティゴネーの主張―問い直される親族関係』竹村和子訳（青土社, 2002年）Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life & Death, (Columbia University Press, 2000) 

『偶発性・ヘゲモニー・普遍性―新しい対抗政治への対話』竹村和子・村山敏勝訳（青土社, 2002年）Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek, (Verso, 2000. 

『生のあやうさ――哀悼と暴力の政治学 』本橋哲也訳（以文社, 2007年）Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence, (Verso, 2004) 

The Maruyama Lectures are named in honor of the late Maruyama Masao (1914-96), historian of East Asian political thought and one of the most influential political thinkers in twentieth-century Japan.  The series brings to the university important scholars and thinkers who will offer reflections on the problem of political engagement and responsibility in modern times, which was the central and overriding concern in Maruyama's work.