Judith Butler

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Full Name	Judith Butler
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1956(1956-02-24)
Age	68
Birthplace	Cleveland
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Aquarius

Judith Butler Biography

Judith Butler is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on February 24, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Modern philosopher who is most famous for her work on queer and feminist theories.

She taught classes in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley for many years. It was the same school where soap opera actor She taught classes on Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley for many years, the same school soap opera actress Molly Stanton once attended. once was a student.

Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer, and literary theory. In 1993, she began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. She is also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School.

Butler attended Bennington College before transferring to Yale University, where she studied philosophy, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1984. She spent one academic year at Heidelberg University as a Fulbright Scholar. She taught at Wesleyan University, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University before joining University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. In 2002 she held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, she joined the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University as Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities in the spring semesters of 2012, 2013 and 2014 with the option of remaining as full- time faculty.

Her family was living within Cleveland, Ohio, when she was born.

Judith Butler Net Worth

Judith Butler is one of the richest Philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Judith Butler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She earned her degree in 1984 from Yale University where she obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1984.

She was presented with her Theodor W. Adorno Award in 2012 for her work in gender studies, political theory and moral philosophy.

Judith Butler was born on February 24, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. Most of her maternal grandmother’s family perished in the Holocaust. Her parents were practicing Reform Jews. Her mother was raised Orthodox, eventually becoming Conservative and then Reform, while her father was raised Reform. As a child and teenager, she attended both Hebrew school and special classes on Jewish ethics, where she received her “first training in philosophy”. Butler stated in a 2010 interview with Haaretz that she began the ethics classes at the age of 14 and that they were created as a form of punishment by her Hebrew school’s Rabbi because she was “too talkative in class”. Butler also stated that she was “thrilled” by the idea of these tutorials, and when asked what she wanted to study in these special sessions, she responded with three questions preoccupying her at the time: “Why was Spinoza excommunicated from the synagogue? Could German Idealism be held accountable for Nazism? And how was one to understand existential theology, including the work of Martin Buber?”

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The dialogue draws heavily on her 2004 book Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence.

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Judith Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Judith Butler celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.

Much of Butler’s early political activism centered around queer and feminist issues, and she served, for a period of time, as the chair of the board of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Over the years, she has been particularly active in the gay and lesbian rights, feminist, and anti-war movements. She has also written and spoken out on issues ranging from affirmative action and gay marriage to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay. More recently, she has been active in the Occupy movement and has publicly expressed support for a version of the 2005 BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel.

What is Judith Butler's theory?

In the essay “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” Judith Butler proposes that gender is performative. Because gender identity is established through behavior, there is a possibility to construct different genders via different behaviors.

Who is afraid of gender Judith Butler?

According to the deal report, Who’s Afraid of Gender? is a “defense of the study of gender that spans philosophy, history, law and reportage to analyze the social fantasy of ‘gender’ as a destructive force that has incited new forms of fascism across the world, and argues that to oppose those reactionary tides, we must …

Why is Judith Butler influential?

Her performative theory of gender and sex, as articulated in that work and others, greatly influenced the development of cultural theory, gender studies, and some schools of philosophical feminism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

What is gender performativity theory?

Gender performativity is the theory that gender and gender roles are elaborate social performances that one puts on in day-to-day life , the hegemonic versions of which underlay popular conceptions of “man”/ “masculine” and “woman”/ “feminine”.

How many genders are there in world?

There are many different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two- spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.