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Nealon, Jeffrey T.

Alterity politics : ethics and performative subjectivity / Jeffrey T. Nealon. - xii, 207 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Alterity Politics: Toward an Ethics without Lack -- Today; or, Between Emergence and Possibility: Foucault, Derrida, and Butler on Performative Identity -- The Ethics of Dialogue: Bakhtin's Answerability and Levinas's Responsibility -- "Junk" and the Other: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs -- Enjoy Your Chiasmus! Ethics, Failure, and the Performative in Zizek and de Man -- Is It the Shoes? Otherness and Exemplarity in Jameson, Heidegger, and Derrida -- Becoming-Black: Repetition and Difference in Baraka's Blues People and Reed's Mumbo Jumbo -- White Male Anger: Failure, Resentment, and Performative Political Theory -- Conclusion: Choosing Ethics, Affirming Alterity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

ISBN: 0822321459 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822321254 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 98014403

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Group identity--Political aspects
Identity politics
Political psychology
Political sociology
Social ethics

LC Class. No.: JA74.5. / N43 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 320.011