UC Berkeley professor Judith Butler has received the Theodor W. Adorno Prize, an award honoring contributions to theater, music, film and philosophy.
Butler belongs to both the rhetoric and comparative literature departments at UC Berkeley, and her interests range from gender and sexuality to literary and cultural studies to race and ethnicity, according to her rhetoric department biography.
“I understand that I am being honored for my scholarly work, especially in gender, sexuality, critical theory and moral philosophy,” Butler told the UC Berkeley NewsCenter. “The award is given to someone who continues the tradition of critical theory, but not necessarily to someone who works on Adorno as a primary author.”
Before Butler won the award, the last Adorno Prize was granted in 2009 to Alexander Kluge, a German author and director.
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Unfortunately, professor Butler is another in a long line of people who are intelligent in their area, but then show incredible ignorance in other areas. It is good for students to recognize that their professors don’t know everything. An organization like Hamas is not a liberal organization, and it is too bad that Butler doesn’t know this.
The comments here are vile and unthinking. Its not good enough to call people you disagree with ‘Nazis’. And as for the insults about her sexuality, her Jewishness, and the invocation of the holocaust, shame on you.
She should be taken to auschwitz and stoned immediately!
Self hating Jew troublemaker, frustrated cunt
Butler is one of the UC Berkeley’s most strident castigators of Israel and an advocate of BDS vs the Jewish State. Giving her an award is like giving a prize for architecture to Third Reich stalwart, Albert Speer, who was a fine architect but an ardent advocate of Jewish genocide. In other words, one might have some skill in a given arena, but when they are-shall we say-an architect of hate-they don’t merit being honored.