www.egs.edu Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben in a public conversation about Eichmann, Law and Justice at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas Fee, Switzerland. They discussed Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem in relation to Agamben's work on liturgy and the spectacle, or the "liturgy of law" in Agamben's words. They also spoke of Kafka and the idea of justice versus juridical law. Free Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Judith Butler Giorgio Agamben. Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a post-structuralist philosopher working in contemporary politics, cultural and literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and sexual politics. In her most well known book, Gender Trouble, she argued that traditional feminism had made the mistake of classifying women as a separate category; instead, she argued, gender should be argued not as an absolute value, but a shifting, relational attribute, one which changes and evolves in different circumstances and times. More recently, Butler has turned her exacting insight towards the intractable subjects of the nation state, war, and the hegemonies of power. As a recipient of the 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, Judith Butler has chosen to <b>...</b>