www.egs.edu Judith Butler, feminist philosopher lecturing about “Primo Levi for the Present”; narrative accounts, forgiveness, holocaust, Auschwitz, victims, execution, war, and crime, while asking the question: “What is to give an Account of Oneself?”. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, Judith Butler Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and an American feminist and post-structuralist philosopher interested in feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, ethics, zionism, israel, oppression, academic freedom and cultural narrative. Judith Butler is the author of Giving An Account of Oneself; Undoing Gender; Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.
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This is an oversimplification of the Shoah’s place in Jewish and Israeli consciousness. The Shoah, arguably, proved the early zionists more correct than even they could have imagined in their pronouncements of the impossibility of a Jewish future in Europe. This underscores the need for Israel, not specific military actions. One can debate the best defense strategy for Israel and, assuming that all agree on Israel’s right to exist, the Shoah is not invoked. Sad to see Butler simplify things.