"For me, from a philosophical point of view, the question is: What would it mean to recognize, accept, certain type of permeability, a certain way in which we are affected by others that we do not know or why we do not choose to be affected? The greatest danger to me is that of the autonomous and monolithic subject trying to establish absolute limits and impercepting, because he refuses to recognize his social character and the interdependence of him. And it seems to me that no solid ethics or politics can not be built on this type of base. "

Judith Butler responds in the interview that she closes this work dedicated entirely to inquired in the productive complexities of her trajectory as an intellectual, philosopher and feminist. "What counts as a life" addresses the main thematic nuclei of critical work that with brilliance and butler generosity offers in each of her writings, from the texts that preceded the most influential book of her, "Gender Trouble", until The most recent production of it.

"What counts as a life" affects the strengthening problem of the concepts that accompany our lives and vertebran the "in process" thought of Judith Butler, his incisive questions about the question of the human, the roads of life and the Manifestations of love perceived as vivible or, on the contrary, violently excluded from that which is valued as a legitimate human life.