Culture and performance : the challenge of ethics, politics, and feminist theory / Vikki Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Vikki, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Performative (Philosophy).

Subjectivity.

Feminist theory.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural theory - spearheaded in many ways by feminist theory - has profound implications for the way we think about ethics and politics. Indeed, as it concerns all aspects of 'difference', it reshapes the ways we think about the continuities and interruptions of social life itself. Culture and Performance explores the development and direction of the notion

Contents:

The promise of performativity : theory and/as political ethic

Genealogy, generation, and partiality

Negotiating the non-ethical : on "ethical feminism"

Rhetorical figures : on "dangerous thought", fear, and politics

Nausea's potential? : genealogy and politics

Performativity challenged? : creativity and the return of interiority

Afterword.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612473784

9781282473782

1282473786

9781847885449

1847885446

OCLC:

659289401