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.