Ordinary Literature Philosophy: Lacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Rancière
Autor Jernej Habjanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2021
The book charts each of these theoretical interactions with a Lacanian reading of the thinker through a case study. Austin, Derrida and Butler are respectively read with a Hollywood blockbuster, a Shakespearean bestseller and a globally influential May '68 poster - texts preoccupied with the problem of subjectivity in early, high and postmodernity. Hence Austin's constatives (nonperformative statements) are explored with Dead Poets Society; Derridean naming with Romeo and Juliet; and Butlerian aesthetic re-enactment with We Are all German Jews. Finally, Rancière and Ducrot enable a return to Austin beyond his continental reception. Austin is valorised with a theory as attractive, and as irreducible, to the continental tradition as his own thought, namely Jacques Lacan's theory of the signifier.
Drawing together some of the giants of language theory, psychoanalysis and poststructuralist thought, Habjan offers a new materialist reading of the 'ordinary' status of literary language and a vital contribution to current debates within literary studies and contemporary philosophy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350267404
ISBN-10: 1350267406
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350267406
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction: Literature and Speech Acts from Austin to Derrida to Butler
1. Literature as Parasite: Austin Excludes Poetry as a Parasite of Speech Acts
Ad 1: Austin's Poetry in Dead Poets Society
2. Parasite as Necessary Possibility: Derrida Elevates the Parasite as the Poetry of Speech Acts
Ad 2: Derrida's Parasite in Romeo and Juliet
3. Necessary Possibility as Necessary Actuality: Butler Finds Poetry in Every Parasite
Ad 3: Butler's Poetry of Parasites in We Are all Jews and Germans
Conclusion: Literature and Political Disagreement from Austin to Rancière to Ducrot
1. Literature as Parasite: Austin Excludes Poetry as a Parasite of Speech Acts
Ad 1: Austin's Poetry in Dead Poets Society
2. Parasite as Necessary Possibility: Derrida Elevates the Parasite as the Poetry of Speech Acts
Ad 2: Derrida's Parasite in Romeo and Juliet
3. Necessary Possibility as Necessary Actuality: Butler Finds Poetry in Every Parasite
Ad 3: Butler's Poetry of Parasites in We Are all Jews and Germans
Conclusion: Literature and Political Disagreement from Austin to Rancière to Ducrot
Recenzii
Ordinary Literature Philosophy is no ordinary book. In Habjan's powerful and challenging argument, speech-act theory, from Austin to Butler, is recast as a powerful weapon for thinking subjectivity and institutional politics. This extraordinary book moves from Dead Poets Society to Romeo and Juliet and beyond to reveal the ideological limits we face and suggests how we might overcome them.
Habjan traverses an untrodden path in Lacanian literary studies. By exposing the relevance of Austin's speech act to Lacan's (un-signified)-signifier and critical reception of the idea by Derrida and Butler, Habjan authenticates a return to Austin's philosophy of doing things with words. He views Ducrot's enunciative theory as an analogue of Lacan's theory of discourses.
Jernej Habjan's Lacanian interpretation of speech act theory is an important intervention into the continental reception of the work of Austin and Searle, and of ordinary language philosophy more generally. Habjan's analysis of "etiolated" (i.e., non-pragmatic) speech acts, such as literary writing, is an erudite and incisive reframing of post-structuralist approaches to literature. He successfully brings the social context back into the discussion in a critical way while highlighting the effect of subjectivation that happens with speech acts. His discussion of Derrida and Butler then takes shape as an appropriative critique that develops and extends the deconstructive analysis of Austin and Searle, but at the same time argues against their neglect of subjectivity. It is also accessibly written and clearly structured.
Habjan traverses an untrodden path in Lacanian literary studies. By exposing the relevance of Austin's speech act to Lacan's (un-signified)-signifier and critical reception of the idea by Derrida and Butler, Habjan authenticates a return to Austin's philosophy of doing things with words. He views Ducrot's enunciative theory as an analogue of Lacan's theory of discourses.
Jernej Habjan's Lacanian interpretation of speech act theory is an important intervention into the continental reception of the work of Austin and Searle, and of ordinary language philosophy more generally. Habjan's analysis of "etiolated" (i.e., non-pragmatic) speech acts, such as literary writing, is an erudite and incisive reframing of post-structuralist approaches to literature. He successfully brings the social context back into the discussion in a critical way while highlighting the effect of subjectivation that happens with speech acts. His discussion of Derrida and Butler then takes shape as an appropriative critique that develops and extends the deconstructive analysis of Austin and Searle, but at the same time argues against their neglect of subjectivity. It is also accessibly written and clearly structured.