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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809702403321

Autore

Bell Vikki <1967->

Titolo

Culture and performance : the challenge of ethics, politics, and feminist theory / / Vikki Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Berg, , 2007

ISBN

1-282-47378-6

9786612473784

1-84788-544-6

Edizione

[English edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Culture - Philosophy

Performative (Philosophy)

Subjectivity

Feminist theory

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The promise of performativity : theory and/as political ethic -- Genealogy, generation, and partiality -- Negotiating the non-ethical : on "ethical feminism" -- Rhetorical figures : on "dangerous thought", fear, and politics -- Nausea's potential? : genealogy and politics -- Performativity challenged? : creativity and the return of interiority -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural theory - spearheaded in many ways by feminist theory - has profound implications for the way we think about ethics and politics. Indeed, as it concerns all aspects of 'difference', it reshapes the ways we think about the continuities and interruptions of social life itself. Culture and Performance explores the development and direction of the notion