Bøker av Samuel A. Chambers

Develops Butler's theory of the political through an exploration of her politics of troubling given categories and approaches. This book moves between Butler's writings on gender and her interventions in post-9/11 politics. It marks an intellectual event for political theory, with major implications for feminism, women's studies, and others.

Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach. Bearing Society in Mind challenges these disciplinary boundaries and proposes an alternative frameworkthe social formation. The theory of social formation demonstrates how the fabric of society is made up of threads that are simultaneously economic, political, and cultural. Drawing on the work of theorists including Marx, Althusser, Butler, Zizek and Ranciere, Bearing Society in Mind makes the strongest case possible for the theoretical importance and political necessity of this concept. It simultaneously demonstrates that the social formation proves to be a very particular and peculiar type of ';concept'it is not a reflection or model of the world, but is definitively and concretely bound up with and constitutive of the world.

Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an 'untimely' politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable.