Opinion of Judith Butler

[The Mikado]

I've been reading some of her stuff.  Fascinating.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've been reading some of her stuff.

That can't have been a very pleasant experience. She may actually be worse (in terms of writing style) than Habermas. And, of course, once wrote a truly insane justification of this.

[The Mikado]

I've been reading some of her stuff.

That can't have been a very pleasant experience. She may actually be worse (in terms of writing style) than Habermas. And, of course, once wrote a truly insane justification of this.

Not a bad comparison.  It's a lot easier (as with some others) to read a review of her essay, then read her essay with the review's points in mind.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

From what I know of her views, relative FF, though there are other types of feminism that I prefer (and, come to that, other types of post-structuralism). My favorite feminist thinkers and activists historically are the ones who were active at the same time as the First Wave/suffragettes but from non-Western/white/privileged backgrounds (think Sojourner Truth and Hiratsuka Raichō), and currently various kinds of religious feminism (Sor Juana, the people involved in Sisterhood, and actually those kinds of New Age feminism which aren't completely nuts, which do exist but are drowned out a lot of the time by the kinds that are). My favorite kinds of post-structuralism tend towards the satirical.

As for writing style, she can't possibly be worse than Nishida Kitarō.

[Insula Dei]

Butler is an FF, but I don't think I'd voluntary start reading tons of her work. (And I don't share the near-hatred of poststructuralism that seems to be present in Al).