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Alterity Politics : Ethics and Performative Subjectivity /

In conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negativively, as gaps to be overcome, as lacks of sameness, as evidence of failed or incomplete unity. In Alterity Politics, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues instead for a concrete and ethical understanding of community, one that requir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Alterity Politics: Toward an Ethics without Lack
  • 1. Today; or, Between Emergence and Possibility: Foucault, Derrida, and Butler on Performative Identity
  • 2. The Ethics of Dialogue: Bakhtin's Answerability and Levinas's Responsibility
  • 3. "Junk" and the Other: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs
  • 4. Enjoy Your Chiasmus! Ethics, Failure, and the Performative in Zizek and de Man
  • 5. Is It the Shoes? Otherness and Exemplarity in Jameson, Heidegger, and Derrida
  • 6. Becoming-Black: Repetition and Difference in Baraka's Blues People and Reed's Mumbo Jumbo
  • 7. White Male Anger: Failure, Resentment, and Performative Political Theory
  • Conclusion: Choosing Ethics, Affirming Alterity.