Reign of Anti-logos

Performance in Postmodernity

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvDavid Hawkes

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This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usuryand similar performative signs.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-11-25
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics
Antal sidor275
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030559427

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David Hawkes is a Professor in the Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. He is the author of seven books and has published more than 100 articles and reviews. He reviews books regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and he has appeared on National Public Radio. Professor Hawkes has held visiting appointments in Turkey, India, Japan and China. He has received such awards as a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2002-03), and the William Ringler Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2006).

Chapter One: Usury, Sodomy, and Idolatry.- Chapter Two: Performativity in Postmodernity.- Chapter Three: The Commodification of Rhetoric in Classical Athens.- Chapter Four: Witchcraft and Representation in Early Modern England.- Chapter Five: Commodification and Performativity in Eucharistic Ethics.- Chapter Six: The Two Usuries: Performative Representation in the City Comedies.- Chapter Seven: Modernism, Inflation and the Gold Standard.- Chapter Eight: Against Financial Derivatives: Towards an Ethics of Representation.- Chapter Nine: The Future Sign: Debt in the Anglophone Yoruba Novel.