The Reign of Anti-logos: Performance in Postmodernity David Hawkes

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• ISBN 10: 3030559408
• ISBN 13: 9783030559403
• Author: David Hawkes

The concept of ‘performativity’ has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people’s personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usuryand similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.

Table of contents:

1. Usury, Sodomy and Idolatry
2. Performativity in Postmodernity
3. The Commodification of Rhetoric in Classical Athens
4. Witchcraft and Representation in Early Modern England
5. Commodification and the Performative Sign in Eucharistic Ethics
6. The Two Usuries: Performative Representation in the City Comedies
7. Modernism, Inflation, and the Gold Standard
8. Against Financial Derivatives: Toward an Ethics of Representation
9. The Future-Sign: Representation in the Anglophone Yoruba Novel

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