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Episode: 233 - Judith Butler: Trump & Harris | Israel & Palestine | Sex & Gender
Pub date: 2024-11-03

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Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. In this episode, Robinson and Judith discuss three broad topics. First, they talk about Judith’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). In particular, they touch on the dynamics of sex and gender, as well as their political dimensions. Second, the conversation turns to the 2024 presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Finally, they broach the topic of Israel and Palestine, with particular attention to the questions of genocide and anti-semitism.

Who’s Afraid of Gender?: https://a.co/d/beDcQ1S

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

01:03 Judith’s Introduction to Philosophy and Gender Studies

11:00 Who’s Afraid of Gender?

22:11 On Trans and Intersex Olympics Controversies

26:09 Is the Man/Woman Binary a Fantasy?

35:17 Are Putin and Orban Transphobic?

41:49 How to Change One’s Gender

47:25 Language and Gender

52:16 On Psychoanalysis

58:49 On Gender Issues and the 2024 Election

1:04:30 On Trump 2024

1:06:14 On Harris 2024

1:10:39 Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?

1:18:51 Is Gaza a Concentration Camp?

1:20:49 How Will the War in Israel and Palestine End?

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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, historians, economists, and everyone in-between.

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