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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left QUOTES

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left QUOTES

1 " Postmodern politics definitely has the great merit that it 'repoliticizes' a series of domains previously considered 'apolitical' or 'private'; the fact remains, however, that it does not in fact repoliticize capitalism, because the very notion and form of the 'political' within which it operates is grounded in the 'depoliticization' of the economy. "

― Judith Butler , Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

2 " Thus the successful bid to gain access to marriage effectively strengthens marital status as a state-sanctioned condition for the exercise of certain kinds of rights and entitlements; it strengthens the hand of the state in the regulation of human sexual behavior; and it emboldens the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate forms of partnership and kinship. "

― Judith Butler , Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left