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Judith Butler

1956 - Today

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Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory.In 1993 Butler began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where they have served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. They are also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS).Butler is best known for their books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional, heteronormative notions of gender and develop their theory of gender performativity. This theory has had a major influence on feminist and queer scholarship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judith Butler has received more than 3,777,066 page views. Her biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Judith Butler is the 317th most popular philosopher (up from 349th in 2019), the 786th most popular biography from United States (up from 966th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Philosopher.

Judith Butler is most famous for her work in gender theory. She argues that gender is not a biological fact, but rather a social construct. Butler's work has been highly influential in feminist and queer theory.

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Over the past year Judith Butler has had the most page views in the with 637,571 views, followed by German (151,038), and Spanish (113,520). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Lithuanian (233.04%), Slovenian (194.63%), and Hebrew (117.90%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Judith Butler ranks 317 out of 1,267. Before her are Carl Gustav Hempel, Rudolf Bultmann, Ram Mohan Roy, Nicolai Hartmann, Jacobus Arminius, and Gemistus Pletho. After her are Alfred Schütz, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Alfred Tarski, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Rudolf Otto, and Moritz Schlick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Judith Butler ranks 22. Before her are Carrie Fisher, Andy García, David Copperfield, José Manuel Barroso, Chris Isaak, and Dalia Grybauskaitė. After her are Jost Gippert, Linda Hamilton, Giuseppe Tornatore, Leslie Cheung, Geena Davis, and Ingemar Stenmark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Judith Butler ranks 786 out of 20,380. Before her are Brandon Lee (1965), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Joe DiMaggio (1914), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Robert McNamara (1916), and Dalton Trumbo (1905). After her are Antony Blinken (1962), Mark Hamill (1951), Marvin Gaye (1939), Bill Russell (1934), Douglass North (1920), and Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Judith Butler ranks 4. Before her are John Rawls (1921), George Herbert Mead (1863), and Robert Nozick (1938). After her are Anne Sullivan (1866), Richard Rorty (1931), John Searle (1932), Hilary Putnam (1926), Ronald Dworkin (1931), Nelson Goodman (1906), Martha Nussbaum (1947), and Daniel Dennett (1942).

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