Alterity politics : ethics and performative subjectivity / Jeffrey T. Nealon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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