{"product_id":"performativity-9780415329262","title":"Performativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be performative' in just this way, and their thinking on the topic has had an important impact on a broad range of academic disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this accessible introduction to a sometimes complex field, James Loxley:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eoffers a concise and original account of critical debates around the idea of performativity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etraces the history of the concept through the work of such influential theorists as J. L. Austin, John Searle, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Judith Butler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexamines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eemphasises the political and et\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1. From the Performative to the Speech Act: J.L. Austin 2. Philosophy and Ordinary Language: Austin and Cavell 3. A General Theory of Speech Acts: Searle 4. Speech Acts, Fiction and Deconstruction: Searle, Fish and Derrida 5. Performativity, Iterability and Politics: Derrida and De Man 6. Being Performative: Butler 7. Performativity and Performance Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018132914519,"sku":"9780415329262","price":24.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415329262.jpg?v=1750775742","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performativity-9780415329262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}