Texts by Judith Butler, 1995

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

"Attachement obstiné et assujettissement corporel--Relire Hegel à propos de la conscience malheureuse." In Claude Amey and Henri Maler, eds., Hegel passé, Hegel à venir, pp. 109-135. Futur antérieur. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 1995.
Translation by Michel Vakaloulis of "Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection: Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy Consciousness" (1995).

"Burning Acts-Injurious Speech." In Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, eds., Performativity and Performance, pp.197-227. Essays from the English Institute. New York & London: Routledge, 1995.
Paper presented to the 1993 meeting of the English Institute.

"Burning Acts: Injurious Speech." In Anselm Haverkamp, ed., Deconstruction is/in America: A New Sense of the Political, pp.149-180. New York: New York University Press, 1995.

"Collected and Fractured: Response to Identities." In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., Identities, pp.439-447. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Some of the essays in this volume originally appeared in the journal Critical Inquiry (Summer 1992).
"We have added four essays from later issues of the journal, and, at the end, a number of critical responses to the original volume,each of which challenges one or several of the original papers and enlarges and enriches the debate." --(Appiah & Gates, p.6.)
Butler's essay is one of the added critical responses.

"'Conscience Doth Make Subjects of Us All'." Yale French Studies (June 1995), 88: 6-26.
On Althusser's doctrine of interpellation.
This issue is entitled "Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey, and the Labor of Reading," edited by Jacques Lezra.

"Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of'Postmodernism'." In Cathy Caruth and Deborah Esch, eds.,Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing, pp. 213-232. A volume in a series from the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
See "Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of'Postmodernism'" (1991).
First presented in a different version as "Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism" at the Greater Philadelphia Consortium in September 1990.

"Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'." In Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange, pp. 35-57. Thinking Gender. New York: Routledge, 1995.
See "Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of'Postmodernism'" ( 1991).

"Desire." In Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds., Critical Terms for Literary Study. 2d edition, pp. 369-386. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

"For a Careful Reading." In Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange, pp. 127-143. Thinking Gender. New York: Routledge, 1995.

"Keeping it Moving: 'Melancholy Gender-Refused Identification'." Psychoanalytic Dialogues (1995), 5(2): 189-193.
Reply to Adam Phillips' response "Keeping It Moving: Commentary on Judith Butler's 'Melancholy Gender-Refused Identification'." Pyschoanalytic Dialogues (1995), 5(2): 181-188.

Körper von Gewicht. Die diskursiven Grenzen des Geschlects. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1995; Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1997.
1 Körper von Gewicht:51-87
2 Der lesbische Phallus und das morphologische Imaginäre:89-133
3 Phantasmatische Identfizierung und die Annahme des Geschlechts:135-170
4 Gender Is Burning: Fragen der Aneignung und Subversion:171-197
5 "Gefährlicher Übergang": Willa Cathers männliche Namen:199-230
6 Passing, Queering: Nella Larsens Herausforderung der Psychoanalyse:231-256
7 Sich mit dem Realen anlegen:257-303
8 Auf kritische Weise queer:305-332

German translation by Karin Wördemann of Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993).

"Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification." In Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis and Simon Watson, eds., Constructing Masculinity, pp. 21-36. Discussions in Contemporary Culture. New York & London: Routledge, 1995.
This paper was first presented at the Division 39 Meetings of the American Psychological Association in New York City in April of 1993 and appeared previously in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (1995), 5(2): 165-180.
Parts of the essay are drawn fromBodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993).

"Melancholy Gender-Refused Identification." Psychoanalytic Dialogues (1995), 5(2):165-180.

"Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification." In Jessica Benjamin, ed., Unbestimmte Grenzen: Beiträge zur Psychoanalyse der Geschlechter. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1995.

"Self-Referentiality: Pro and Contra. " Common Knowledge (Fall 1995), 4(2): 70-73.
Comments on Manfred Frank's "Mental Familiarity and Epistemic Self-Ascription," pp. 30-50, and Régis Debray's "Transmitting Symbols," pp. 51-69.

"Sexual Inversions." In Richardo Llamas, ed., Construyendo Sidentidades: Estudios desde el Corazon de una Pandemia. Salud y Sociedad. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1995.
See "Sexual Inversions" (1992).

"Slaying the Messenger." [Letter to the Editor] New York Times (June 8, 1995):A18(National edition), A28(Localedition).
On William J. Bennett and C. C. DeLores Tucker's Op-Ed "Lyricsfrom the Gutter." New York Times (June 2, 1995): A29(Local edition).

"Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection: Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy Consciousness." In Tilottama Rajan and David L. Clark, eds., Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, pp. 173-196. SUNY Series: The Margins of Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

"Subjection, Resistance, Resignification: Between Freud and Foucault." In John Rajchman, ed., The Identity in Question, pp. 229-249. New York & London: Routledge, 1995.
"This volume grew out of a symposium held in New York in 1991."

"Thresholds of Melancholy." In Steven Galt Crowell, ed., The Prism of the Self: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson, pp. 3-12. Contributions to Phenomenology, 19. Dordrecht, Holland & Boston: Kluwer, 1995.

(with Ernesto Laclau and Reinaldo Laddaga.) "The Uses of Equality/Los Usos de la Igualidad." TRANS: Arts, Cultures, Media (November 1995), 1(1): 40-55.
Translated by José del Valle and Reinaldo Laddaga.
An e-mail exchange between Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau that took place in May-June 1995.
See "The Uses of Equality" (1997).