Pleased to be in conversation today with my colleague, judith butler, discussing the new book the forc of nonviolence. Judith butler is a fundamental voice in our understanding of gender, sexuality, politics, theory and of the author of 13 books including like i said the force of nonviolence. Judiths a professor in the department of compative literature and prossor in the program and critical theory at uc berkeley. So, welcome, judith. Im pleed to be here and speang with you. Im excited to talk with you about your new book. I thought we might begin our conversati helping readers understand that intervenon of the book the sort of conceptual basis in your argumen for reimagining the conception for nonviolence. The book sort of encourages an understanding of nonviolence thats left rooted in a kind of individual morality and a more than concerted politic practice. I thought we would sort of bin by taking a minute to explain why thehift away from kindf indidual morality as you put it someti
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