TY - BOOK AU - Nealon,Jeffrey T. TI - Alterity politics: ethics and performative subjectivity SN - 0822321459 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - JA74.5. N43 1998 U1 - 320.011 PY - 1998/// CY - Durham, NC PB - Duke University Press KW - Group identity KW - Political aspects KW - Identity politics KW - Political psychology KW - Political sociology KW - Social ethics N1 - 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 ER -