Jeffrey T. Nealon

Fates of the Performative

From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism

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Produktbeschreibung

"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept"--

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Produktdetails

• Thinking Theory
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 215mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781517910860
• ISBN-10: 1517910862
• Artikelnr.: 60798610

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University. His most recent books are I’m Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music; Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life; and Post-Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Why the Performative?
Part I. Genealogy of the Performative
1. The Truth Is a Joke? Performatives in Austin and Derrida
2. Two Paths You Can Go By: Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
3. The Bodacious Era: Thoreau and New Materialism; or, What’s Wrong with
the Anthropocene?
Part II. Performativity and/as/into Biopolitics
4. Biopolitics, Marxism and Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
5. What Is a Lecturer? Performative, Parrhesia, and the Author-Function in
Foucault’s Lecture Courses
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