Дата рождения: February 24, 1956 – Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work spans ethics, political theory, feminism, and queer studies. Best known for Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter, Butler helped popularize gender performativity and has profoundly influenced humanities scholarship, earning honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize.
Judith Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 24, 1956, and grew up in a Jewish family shaped by both civic engagement and religious study. Britannica notes that Butler’s father was a dentist and their mother worked for fair housing, while the Jewish Women’s Archive emphasizes the importance of Hebrew school and Jewish ethics in Butler’s intellectual formation. After a brief period at Bennington College, Butler moved to Yale, where they completed degrees in philosophy, culminating in a Ph.D. in 1984. Those early commitments to ethics, language, and interpretation remained central to the writing that followed. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judith-Butler))
"Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble was one of the foundational texts of queer theory"
— Britannica
"The American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the preeminent contemporary thinkers on issues at the intersection of gender and identity"
— Aeon
"Of all our contemporary academics with claims to the title of public intellectual, Judith Butler is the first among equals"
— Corey Robin
"Judith Butler is an American philosopher working in feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis and continental philosophy"
— Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Judith Butler is a pioneering voice in feminism, gender studies, critical theory, and contemporary philosophy"
— EL PAÍS
"Judith Butler, the philosopher and gender theorist, has been denounced, demonized, even burned in effigy"
— The New Yorker
"The American philosopher Judith Butler is a leading figure in gender studies"
— Le Monde
"Judith Butler, gender theorist extraordinaire, is a giant and a genius"
— The Washington Post
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