Performatives after deconstruction / edited by Mauro Senatore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgement; Introduction:; Introduction: Positing, the Performative and the Supplement; The performativity of the performative; Autoperformative and self-positing; The text of the archi-promise; The fore-structure of language; The aporia of positing; Note on the contributions; Notes; Part One; Chapter 1 Promising Hospitality: l'Étranger Gives the Law in D'Alembert's 'Genève'; 'Genève'; Strangers in 'Genève'; Concerting and disconcerting promises; Notes; Chapter 2 Performative Perfume; Im-possible responsivity; Ethical overload.

The limits of the performativePerformativity on the down-low; Notes; Chapter 3 The Performative and the Normative; The standard narrative of the performative; Heidegger's responsibility; The performative in the general and the strict sense; The performativity of the event; Normative performativity and normative theory; The separation and co-implication of the performative and the normative; Notes; Part Two; Chapter 4 Performativity as Ek-Scription: Adonis After Derrida; A successful performative is impure; Ex-scription; Writing in an idiom of the dead; Lacanian inmixing.

September 11 -- A grave for New YorkNotes; Chapter 5 Living On: The Absolute Performative; The double yes: From the linguistic to the absolute performative; Living on: The absolute performative; Traces of life in the text; Living ouverture; Notes; Chapter 6 Archive-Abilities; (Archivable) Abstract; Archive and event; Archive and impression; Singularity and event; Metonymies of the archive; The archive and the anthological; Part Three; Chapter 7 The Performativity of Art; The iterability of art as a problem for performativity; The signature, countersignature and art as performative fiction.

Who or what signs? The blindness of signaturesThe principle of ruin and the touch of the countersignature; Notes; Chapter 8 Passive Performative; Questions; Again the performative: That perhaps it does not exist; Inhabited structures and etiolated performatives; The moral performative; Notes; Part Four; Chapter 9 Departures: The American Future of Psychoanalysis1; Theatre of cruelty; New York stories; The future of an illusion; Notes; Chapter 10 Laruelle Contra Derrida: Performative Realism and the Logics of Consistency; Introduction.

Performative realism: Introducing Laruelle's non-philosophyMore Derridean than Derrida?; Deconstructing (in)consistency; Notes; Epilogue: No Sooner Said Than Done; Bibliography; Index.

What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book brings together scholars whose works have been provoked in different ways by the encounter of deconstruction and the performative. Following Derrida's appeal to any rigorous deconstruction to reckon with Austin's theorems and his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite the performative and its multiple articulations, it is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a theoretical event th.

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