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'Capitalist Economics' introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies today. Rejecting the idea that economics is a universal science of 'choice' or the 'efficient allocation of scarce resources,' this book analyzes economic forces and relations as essential elements of a broader society. This entails understanding 'the economic' as a logic that always operates alongside cultural, political, and social forces. As well, it requires grasping the economic as itself a product of historical development. This book explores the unique economic pressures found in capitalist societies, offering detailed yet concise analysis of basic concepts - commodities, money, exchange, interest - and investigating broader issues such as the source of profit, the nature of growth, and the role of technology and invention.

"The Queer Politics of Television" is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - including "Six Feet Under", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Desperate Housewives", "The L Word", and "Big Love"--As serious, important texts and reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory. Chambers makes the case for the profound significance of 'the cult

Every Economics textbook today teaches that questions of values and morality lie outside of, are in fact excluded from, the field of Economics and its proper domain of study, "the economy." Yet the dominant cultural and media narrative in response to major economic crisis is almost always one of moral outrage. How do we reconcile this tension or explain this paradox by which Economics seems to have both everything and nothing to do with values? The discipline of modern economics hypostatizes and continually reifies a domain it calls "the economy"; only this epistemic practice makes it possible to falsely separate the question of value from the broader inquiry into the economic. And only if we have first eliminated value from the domain of economics can we then transform stories of financial crisis or massive corporate corruption into simple tales of ethics. But if economic forces establish, transform, and maintain relations of value then it proves impossible to separate economics from questions of value, because value relations only come to be in the world by way of economic logics. This means that the "positive economics" spoken of so fondly in the textbooks is nothing more than a contradiction in terms, and as this book demonstrates, there's no such thing as "the economy." To grasp the basic logic of capital is to bring into view the unbreakable link between economics and value

What if 'liberal democracy' were a contradiction in terms? This text distinguishes liberalism (a logic of order) from democracy (a principle of disordering) to defend a Rancierean vision of impure politics.

Every Economics textbook today teaches that questions of values and morality lie outside of, are in fact excluded from, the field of Economics and its proper domain of study, "the economy." Yet the dominant cultural and media narrative in response to major economic crisis is almost always one of moral outrage. How do we reconcile this tension or explain this paradox by which Economics seems to have both everything and nothing to do with values? The discipline of modern economics hypostatizes and continually reifies a domain it calls "the economy"; only this epistemic practice makes it possible to falsely separate the question of value from the broader inquiry into the economic. And only if we have first eliminated value from the domain of economics can we then transform stories of financial crisis or massive corporate corruption into simple tales of ethics. But if economic forces establish, transform, and maintain relations of value then it proves impossible to separate economics from questions of value, because value relations only come to be in the world by way of economic logics. This means that the "positive economics" spoken of so fondly in the textbooks is nothing more than a contradiction in terms, and as this book demonstrates, there's no such thing as "the economy." To grasp the basic logic of capital is to bring into view the unbreakable link between economics and value.

Carole Pateman's writings have been innovatory precisely for their qualities of engagement, pursued at the height of intellectual rigour. This book draws from her vast output of articles, chapters, books and speeches to provide a thematic yet integrated account of her innovations in political theory and contributions to the politics of policy-making. The editors have focused on work in three key areas: Democracy Pateman's perspective is rooted in a practical perspective, enquiring into and speculating about forms of participation over and above the 'traditional' exclusions through which repres.

Introduction / Terrell Carver & Samuel A. Chambers -- Butler's phenomenological existentialism / Diana Coole -- Feminists know not what they do : Judith Butler's Gender trouble and the limits of epistemology / Linda M.G. Zerilli -- "French theory" goes to France : trouble dans le genre and "materialist" feminism : a conversation manque / Lisa Jane Disch -- Acclaim for Antigone's claim reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler) / John E. Seery -- Missing poststructuralism, missing Foucault : Butler and Fraser on capitalism and the regulation of sexuality / Anna Marie Smith -- Towards a cultural politics of vulnerability : precarious lives and ungrievable deaths / Moya Lloyd -- Change of address : Butler's ethics at sovereignty's deadlock / Jodi Dean -- Sovereignty and suffering : towards an ethics of grief in a post-9/11 world / David S. Gutterman & Sara L. Rushing -- Butler and life : law, sovereignty, power / Elena Loizidou -- Rights and the politics of performativity / Karen Zivi -- This species which is not one : identity practices in Star trek : deep space nine / Kathy E. Ferguson -- Vulnerability, vengeance, and community : Butler's political thought and Eastwood's Mystic river / Robert E. Watkins -- Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn.

Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past twenty years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory.

Political Theory of Judith Butler proceeds thematically to introduce Butler's basic terms and conceptions before leading the reader through her substantive contributions.