Fates of the performative : from the linguistic turn to the new materialism / Jeffrey T. Nealon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas), author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Thinking theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performative (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover Page

Thinking Theory

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: Why the Performative?

Part I: Genealogy of the Performative

Chapter 1. The Truth Is a Joke?: Performatives in Austin and Derrida

Chapter 2. Two Paths You Can Go By: Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Chapter 3. The Bodacious Era: Thoreau and New Materialism

or, What's Wrong with the Anthropocene?

Part II: Performativity and/as/into Biopolitics

Chapter 4. Biopolitics, Marxism, and Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 5. What Is a Lecturer?: Performative, Parrhesia, and the Author-Function in Foucault's Lecture Courses

Chapter 6. Literary RealFeel: Banality, Fatality, and Meaning in Kenneth Goldsmith's The Weather

Conclusion: On the Returns of Realism and the (Supposed) Exhaustion of Critique

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas). Fates of the performative

ISBN:

9781452965383

1452965382

9781452965376

1452965374

Publisher Number:

40030538693

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