The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages
“The Scandal of the Speaking Body—one of the most brilliant and daring and disturbing works of its period, which appeared in English translation in 1984 [under the title The Literary Speech Act] . . . has never found the full radius of readers it assumes and deserves.” —From the Forewordby Stanley Cavell
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What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Molière's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century philosopher, she explores the relation between speech and the erotic, using a literary text as the ground for a telling encounter between philosophy, linguistics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. In the years since the publication of this book (which the author today calls "the boldest, the most provocative, but also the most playful" she has written), speech act theory has continued to play a central and defining role in the theories of sexuality, gender, performance studies, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies. This book remains topical as readers increasingly discover how multiply relevant the speaking body is. Moving beyond the domain of formal linguistic analysis to address these questions, the author has written a daring and seductive book.From the Foreword by Stanley Cavell - Stanley CavellThe Scandal of the Speaking Body-one of the most brilliant and daring and disturbing works of its period, which appeared in English translation in 1984 [under the title The Literary Speech Act] . . . has never found the full radius of readers it assumes and deserves.
Preface to the New EditionForeword to The Scandal of the Speaking BodyPreface: The Promising Animal31Between Linguistics and Philosophy of Language: Theories of Promise, Promises of Theory62The Perversion of Promising: Don Juan and Literary Performance123The Scandal of the Performative414Knowledge and Pleasure, or the Philosopher's Performance (Psychoanalysis and the Performative)48Afterword113Notes125Index138
\ Stanley CavellThe Scandal of the Speaking Body-one of the most brilliant and daring and disturbing works of its period, which appeared in English translation in 1984 [under the title The Literary Speech Act] . . . has never found the full radius of readers it assumes and deserves.\ —From the Foreword by Stanley Cavell\ \
