葛兰西霸权观念的当代遗产是什么？既然普遍性的虚假版本已被彻底批判，那应该如何去重新阐述它？在这一彻底颠覆性的项目中，巴特勒、拉克劳和齐泽克这三位在国际学术中以激进风格著称的当红明星就当代哲学和政治学的中心问题进行了对话。他们的论文按照三组彼此对应的文章进行编排，涉及黑格尔在当代批判理论中的遗产、文化多元主义的理论困境、普遍性与特殊性之间的争论、全球化经济体系中左派的战略，以及后结构主义和拉康的精神分析对批判的社会理论的价值等等问题。在本书中，三位大家在尖锐地批评另两位的思想的同时奋力为自己的观点辩护。激烈的争论，严密的论证，精彩的辩护，大胆的揭露……本书充满了火药味。

In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in "Gender Trouble" and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory.

“如果不想陷入以暴易暴的恶性循环，我们就必须回答一个重要的问题：在政治领域，除了带来好战的呼号，悲伤还能为我们带来什么？”在这部激情洋溢、极具个人风格的著作中，巴特勒深刻反思了九一一事件之后的美国社会，批评了美国当局发动长期战争的决策，继而呼吁人们深入认识哀悼与暴力的力 量，理解它们如何促成团结并鼓舞人们追求全球正义。显然，巴特勒一直致力于激发、探索各类“麻烦”，而这也正是其学术志趣所在：“由心理世界出发探索公共生活，鼓舞人们懂得团结、认识痛苦。”诚如荷米·巴巴所言，正是这些因素使我们成为自由的主体。 ——“一言以蔽之，朱迪斯·巴特勒是当代极为深刻、极富胆识、极具影响的思想家。”（J. M. Bernstein） ——“显然作者一直致力于激发并探索学术与政治领域的‘麻烦’。” （Bookforum） ——“力作，闪耀着深思熟虑的光芒。”（Brooklyn Rail） ——“尤为关注时事、平实易读的巴特勒著作。”（Women’s Review of Books） ——“独具勇气与抱负的力作：由心理世界出发探索公共生活，鼓舞人们懂得团结、认识痛苦——正是这些因素使我们成为自由的主体。”（Homi K. Bhabha）

《身体之重》聚焦于身体和性别的物质性和述行性。巴特勒在本书中引入“征” 、“复现”等重要概念，厘清了她首次在《性别麻烦》中提出并引起广泛争议的“性别述行”理论。通过解读柏拉图、伊瑞葛来、拉康、弗洛伊德、德里达等人的相关论述，以及威拉·凯瑟和詹妮·利文斯顿等人的文学文本和电影作品，本书详细考察了霸权话语如何形构了身体、性别和性属，揭示了在此过程中必然产生的排除、错综复杂的身份认同及其不确定性。巴特勒还在书中提出了诸多尚未解决的议题，这意味着身体政治将进入一个更具开放性的话语空间。 巴特勒认为性别的规制力是一种生产力，它具有生产它所控制的身体的力量。性别是被强行物质化了的理想建构——它不是身体的简单事实或静态状况，而是一个过程，通过对律法的反复征引和复现，管制规范强行对身体和性别加以物质化。而这种物质化从来不曾真正完成，事实上，规制性律法的权力可以被反戈一击，生成质疑这种霸权的再表述。

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.