The limits of the thinkable: Subject, Grief and Melancholy in Judith Butler
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The text analyses Judith Butler’s political theory through the intersection of the concepts of the subject, the political community and the grievance process. In order to do so, the political ontology of vulnerability will be analyzed, focusing on Butler’s thesis on the uneven distribution of the possibility to grief. For Butler, this inequality will enable us to analyze and understand the dimension live acquires in a political community, as well as its limits and emptiness. The political related proposal outlined in Butler’s later texts that focus on rethinking the concept of melancholy as well as its politization will also be analyzed.
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