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100			_aButler, Judith
245			_aExcitable speech : a politics of the performative
260			_bRoutledge, _c2021 _aLondon :
300			_axxiv, 188 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b16.99 _cGBP _d104.40
490			_aRoutledge classics
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aWhen we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the US military, Butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Yet she also argues that speech is excitable' and fluid, because its effects often are beyond the control of the speaker, shaped by fantasy, context and power structures. In a novel and courageous move, she urges caution concerning the use of legislation to restrict and censor speech, especially in cases where injurious language is taken up by aesthetic practices to diminish and oppose the injury, such as in rap and popular music. Although speech can insult and demean, it is also a form of recognition and may be used to talk back; injurious speech can reinforce power structures, but it can also repeat power in ways that separate language from its injurious power. Skillfully showing how language's oppositional power resides in its insubordinate and dynamic nature and its capacity to appropriate and defuse words that usually wound, Butler also seeks to account for why some clearly hateful speech is taken to be iconic of free speech, while other forms are more easily submitted to censorship. In light of current debates between advocates of freedom of speech and no platform' and cancel culture, the message of Excitable Speech remains more relevant now than ever. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author, where she considers speech and language in the context contemporary forms of political polarization.
650			_aSpeech acts
650			_aSocial aspect
650			_ahate speech
650			_aLanguage and languages ​​Political aspect
650			_aOral communication
650			_aHate propaganda
650			_aAlthusser,Louis
650			_a Bourdieu,Pierre
650			_aCensorship
650			_aChaplinsky
650			_aEfficacious utterances
650			_a Fighting words doctrine
650			_aForeclouser
650			_aHomosexual conduct
650			_a Interpellation
650			_aLinguistic injury
650			_aMari Matsuda
650			_aPerformative contradiction
650			_a Pornography
650			_aRacist speech
650			_aRichard Delgado
650			_aSexual abuse
650			_aThreats
650			_aUtterance contexts
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