How to Not Do Things without Words: Unintelligible Histories in the Political Thought of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler

• In Event: Continuity and Rupture

Brief Overview

This paper responds to political critiques of Butler's "ethical turn" by highlighting the interpretive problem of historical unintelligibility that Butler inherits from Foucault and leads to her recent focus on vulnerability and precariousness.

Author

• Tim Charlebois, Northwestern University