{"product_id":"9781350267404","title":"Ordinary Literature Philosophy Lacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Rancière","description":"\u003ch1\u003eOrdinary Literature Philosophy\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Rancière\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJernej Habjan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first extended Lacanian reading of J. L. Austin's ordinary language philosophy, this book examines how it has been received in the continental tradition by Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière and Oswald Ducrot. This is a tradition that neglects Austin's general speech act theory on behalf of his special theory of the performative, whilst bringing a new attention to the literary and the aesthetic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book charts each of these theoretical interactions with a Lacanian reading of the thinker through a case study. Austin, Derrida and Butler are respectively read with a Hollywood blockbuster, a Shakespearean bestseller and a globally influential May '68 poster – texts preoccupied with the problem of subjectivity in early, high and postmodernity. Hence Austin's constatives (nonperformative statements) are explored with \u003ci\u003eDead Poets Society\u003c\/i\u003e; Derridean naming with \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e; and Butlerian aesthetic re-enactment with \u003ci\u003eWe Are all German Jews\u003c\/i\u003e. Finally, Rancière and Ducrot enable a return to Austin beyond his continental reception. Austin is valorised with a theory as attractive, and as irreducible, to the continental tradition as his own thought, namely Jacques Lacan's theory of the signifier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing together some of the giants of language theory, psychoanalysis and poststructuralist thought, Habjan offers a new materialist reading of the 'ordinary' status of literary language and a vital contribution to current debates within literary studies and contemporary philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJernej Habjan\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Fellow at the Research Centre and Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School, of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the co-editor \u003ci\u003eGlobalizing Literary Genres\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003e(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 June 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350267404\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333167382668,"sku":"9781350267404","price":40.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_015b6b9c-1236-426a-a310-68004c974ce6.jpg?v=1783608730","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350267404","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}