Reminiscing the philosopher Miladin Životić, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade, awards a prize for critical engagement to leading theorists whose action effects important echoes in social practice.
The first prize for critical engagement was awarded to Judith Butler in Rijeka, where the conference Critique of Violence Now took place, co-organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory and the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Rijeka.
Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley) is a professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and in the Critical Theory Program – of which she is one of the founding directors – at Berkeley. She received her doctorate in philosophy from Yale University in 1984.
She authored the following books: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (1997), Excitable Speech (1997), Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Undoing Gender (2004), Who Sings the Nation-State ?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak, 2007), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), Is Critique Secular? (with Talal Assad, Wendy Brown and Saba Mahmoud, 2009), Sois Mon Corps (co-authored with Katrin Malabu 2011), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012), Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (together with Athena Athanasiu, 2013), Senses of the Subject (2015).
Her latest book, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, published in November 2015, was presented for the first time in Belgrade.
