
Judith Butler Q&A: “I’d like more joy, more music, a new political regime”
The philosopher and gender theorist on Hegel, Kafka, and getting lost at the circus.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
The philosopher and gender theorist on Hegel, Kafka, and getting lost at the circus.
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