Judith Butler's importance for contemporary theory lies not in any one field, but at the crossroads of several of them, including Continental philosophy, feminism, queer theory, political theory, and cultural studies. She has taught a generation of...

For indeed no one has yet determined what the body can do. -Spinoza, Ethics, Part III, Proposition 2, Scholium "There is thinking: therefore there is something that thinks": this is the upshot of all Descartes' argumentation. But this means positing as...

A guiding imperative of Judith Butler's thought is the commitment to "a problematizing suspension of the ontological." Drawing upon the momentum of both feminist and poststructuralist thought, she understands her task to be an "interrogation of the construction and circulation" of ontological claims....

With No Country For Old Men's cinematic debut it was perhaps inevitable that bookstores would see a surge of popular interest in the already-popular work of Cormac McCarthy. And in the East Village, where the reading of novels is hardly the greatest danger posed...