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Alterity politics : ethics and performative subjectivity

Author: Jeffrey T Nealon
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
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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 requires response, action, and performance instead of passive resentment and unproductive mourning for a whole that cannot be  Read more...
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Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas)
Alterity politics.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)604421514
Online version:
Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas)
Alterity politics.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607124617
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey T Nealon
ISBN: 0822321254 9780822321255 0822321459 9780822321453
OCLC Number: 38765045
Description: xiii, 207 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Jeffrey T. Nealon.
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