The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by), Judith Butler (Foreword by)Series:Meridian: Crossing AestheticsPublish date:2002-12-19Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804744539ISBN-10:080474453XUPC:9780804744539Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:8.48 x 5.49 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC42DSE61Z
The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages
What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Molière's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century philosopher, she explores the relation between...
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804744539ISBN-10:080474453XUPC:9780804744539Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:8.48 x 5.49 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC42DSE61Z
Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include Literature and Psychoanalysis, Writing and Madness (in a new edition from Stanford University Press), Testimony, and (most recently) The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by), Judith Butler (Foreword by)
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