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

• Autore: Bell Vikki <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Berg, , 2007
• Edizione: English edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4201
• Soggetto topico: Culture - Philosophy; Performative (Philosophy); Subjectivity; Feminist theory; Ethics
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture and performance
• ISBN: 1-282-47378-6; 9786612473784; 1-84788-544-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809702403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II