Deconstruction, politics, performatics / / Anna Burzyńska ; translated by Thomas Anessi.

• Superior document: Modernity in question : studies in philosophy and history of ideas ; Volume 11
• VerfasserIn: Burzyńska, Anna R., 1979-
• TeilnehmendeR: Anessi, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang Publishing,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Modernity in question ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (411 pages).

In recent years, the terms "ethics," "politics," "performativity," and "experience" have proliferated throughout the discourse of the humanities. However, it is rarely noted that their contemporary understanding has been shaped by the works of Jacques Derrida, who has employed all these concepts since the mid-1960s. The aim of this book is to present the lesser discussed topics of Derrida?s thought ? not only as the creator of a specific mode of interpretation called "deconstruction" but also as an initiator of recent ethical and political reflection, a pioneer of performatics, and a precursor of current research on experience. At the same time, the book provides a panorama of the most important changes in the humanities of the last thirty years, and in particular ? the ethical, performative, and empirical turns.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: From Metaphysics to the Ethical and the Political -- 'Textual Performance' and Praising Experience -- pt. 1 Derrida and the Ethical and Political -- The Ethical Turn -- The Law of the Other -- The Ethical Preconditions for Politics -- The Political Turn -- The Politics of Deconstruction -- America Between Derrida and Foucault -- Against 'Metaphysical Correctness' -- Deconstruction and the New Sense of the Political -- The Otherness of the Other -- The Political Today -- pt. 2 Derrida and Performance -- The Performative Turn -- Performativity and the 'Post-s' -- Two 'Theatres' -- Mime versus Mimesis -- The Second Closure of Representation -- Scrutinizing Austin -- Textual Performance -- 'Event' -- 'Iteration' -- 'Production' -- 'Interaction' -- 'Materiality' -- 'Mobility' -- 'Effect' -- 'Performing' -- 'Scene' -- 'Action -- A Warning in Spurs -- The Scriptor on the Scene of the Text -- To Testify to the Event -- pt. 3 Derrida and Experience Note continued: The Empirical Turn -- Life after Theory -- Problems with Experience -- Experience Regained -- The Confession in Confessions -- Epistemic Trauma -- 'The Experience of Writing -- 'The Critical Experience of Literature -- 'The Experience of Aporia -- Shibboleth, or 'Only One Time' -- The Repetition of Experience -- Signesponge: When the Other Becomes Mine -- Woman Will Not be Pinned Down.