Fury and Justice in the Humanities

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Research Article| April 01 2023 Fury and Justice in the Humanities1 Judith Butler Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley jpbutler@berkeley.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Classical Antiquity (2023) 42 (1): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2023.42.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Judith Butler; Fury and Justice in the Humanities. Classical Antiquity 1 April 2023; 42 (1): 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2023.42.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentClassical Antiquity Search Keywords: abolition, justice, law, prison, rage, violence, Aeschylus, Eumenides It is always awkward for humanities scholars untrained in the classics to engage classical works, even though they do precisely that with apparent enthusiasm and regularity. We usually start by asking to be forgiven for our ignorance, and then we tend to barge ahead and say whatever we please. On the one hand, it is a good thing that the classics do not belong only to the classicists, that they have wide appeal across the humanities, law, and the social sciences. On the other hand, there is always a sense that the engagement stands in need of correction either because we do not have the classical languages well enough or because we do not know the existing scholarship and go about reinventing the wheel. So here I stand, as it were, between this Scylla and Charybdis, not knowing whether to flagellate myself for my lack of expertise or to cheer... You do not currently have access to this content.